By Translation, Past tenses

Hello everybody! Probably, you already know of my infamous venture —the translation of an adventure game called Star Heritage. Below I'll repeat part of my answer to Huevos, whom I shall thank for accidently reminding me of the problem that I now ask you to help me with: «I have tried to...

I think you are right, RayH. The reason why I used the past tense when I referred to my interviewees is that the interviews took place in the past (two years ago). I got only confused when I attempted to translate the rest of the sentence. I undertook these interviews in Arabic and the tense my...

Why didn't you take it? There was no one around! 1 - You have stolen it!<-- You had a chance to steal it, you had the ability to steal it, you were allowed to steal it, but you didn't. were allowed is a less probable paraphrase. An additional paraphrase is You should have stolen it. Why...

There's a pleasing symmetry with the idea that the Qu'ran in English isn't the word of God. On the other hand, if someone accepts that the Bible in English is: ...God's written word... isn't it then valid for that person to conclude that "English was good enough for Jesus"? — the past...

Thank you for your answer! Actually, I was confused by the form of the first, not the second verb. In other translations of this novel Past Tense is used with both "answer" and "say". Just can't see the reasons for grammatical expression of anteriority in the translation with Past Perfect....

I just copied the lyric from a Turkish songs' lyrics page.I know the song well. One of my favorites.The word is sayılmasam, not sayılmazsam.I don't want to get involved in a Turkish grammer question, because this is a English grammar forum.But in case you are interested in, meaning of sayılmasam...

Hi! Are the following 2 verbs idioms: 1. He took a long walk later that night. (to take a walk?) 2. Is ”to come to a conclusion” an idiom? My sentence reads: “They came to the conclusion that they already had a telephone network.” What infinitive forms should I bracket in the following...

Thank you both for your corrections. And to answer your question Alan, leaded petrol is no longer used, perhaps one can get some on some petrol stations, but as far as I know, the answer is no. I guess, that means I should replace it with a verb in past tense. As of ''ethylised'' I suppose it...

Thank you very much, Goodman. Below I have tried to correct the errors you pointed out, but I didn't succeed. In many cases I don't know what's incorrect and how to correct it. So I need further help on part of my errors. «At night I had to _orient_ by touch. Suddenly I fell into a deep...

Hello everybody. Here is the second part of my translation of Star Heritage. I post it as a whole, so that you can point the places where I have made mistakes. Once I know where they are, I'll try to fix them. You should take into consideration that this is a text adventure, and each paragraph...