By Translation, Prepositions

Well, native English speakers would never say 'fill up' a form. It may have become a local variant perhaps, if you hear it a lot, or it could be something that people bring in as a direct translation from their native language without considering that the preposition may be different in...

Words have many meanings and uses. For to doesn´t exist in English as one is trying to put a preposition in front of a infinitive verb.This is a very common translation error in Spanish.For- is used in questions about the purpose ,destination beneficiaries What is this for? I left for Mexico....

Words have many meanings and uses. (For to) doesn´t exist in English as one is trying to put a preposition in front of a infinitive verb.This is a very common translation error in Spanish.For- is used in questions and concerns the purpose ,destination and beneficiaries What is this for? I...

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Long sentences are not wrong in themselves but very complex structures are probably best avoided until you are really fluent. They tend to be used for more formal writing and care needs to be taken that they do not become confusing for the reader. It's more a style issue. Actually, looking again...

Hi, When I first learned English, hear and listen were clear to me. The later requires the attentiveness of a listener. However, talk and speak ran my teacher in circle. He took an English-Vietnamese dictionary and told us to stick with the translation and then he failed to reason why some...

Colombo wrote:I'm trying to translate my CV into English, but I'm finding a lot of difficulties. Apart from the overall chronic style of the result, there are certain things that I find I don't know how to say. I'm copying a list here, in case someone can lend me a hand (for which I'd be...

I'm trying to translate my CV into English, but I'm finding a lot of difficulties. Apart from the overall chronic style of the result, there are certain things that I find I don't know how to say. I'm copying a list here, in case someone can lend me a hand (for which I'd be immensely grateful). I...

Hi, You might like to look at a dictionary of etymology. eg despite 1297, from O.Fr. despit, from L. despectus "a looking down on," from despicere (see despise). The preposition (1593) is short for in despite of (1292), a loan-translation of Fr. en despit de "in contempt of." Almost became...

Yes, but I wonder why of is wrong. As I know, this preposition may be used between two nouns to make the genitive. Moment is a noun, and so is time. Maybe this misunderstanding comes from Russian because the verbatim translation of the phrase would be in the genitive (Moment of what? Moment of...