By Word order, Translation

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own...

Sorry my French isn't good enough to check your answers thoroughly, but I would say - watch out for the word order in your first two sentences. References to time are usually either at the end or beginning of sentences or phrases, e.g. 1. I came across Brandon at the cinema yesterday. 2. Let's...

Of course, _on_ a boulder. That was just a typo. I wasn't sure about the phrase «For some more hours I did something». Is ok or not? In the second question I was in doubt about the word order in the clause: «near which I had lain down». Should it be «which I had lain...

I used to have a ZX Spectrum! I understand what you are doing now and the limitations on the text. (My favourite game was The Hobbit.) «To the east and south half _the view of_ the sky was obstructed by steep greyish green rocks.» Is «the view of» really necessary here? Rocks can't really...

My high school Chinese teacher asked me to help her translate these two abstracts from Chinese into English. I have finished, but I need to correct them into better English. Please help me. I have to give my teacher the translation. She helped me quite a lot while I encountered the most...

Hi Diddy, Here is the piece with errors corrected, and a couple of amendments made to make the style better. All in all it looked very good, there are a couple of expressions in which the correct preposition is not obvious, you just have to know these I'm afraid! One point is that King or Queen...

Hello guys. I asked for the help, but I did not have a chance to finish my work and post it here, 'cause I was on business trip. Now I am back and I have finished my essay. I will appreciate if someone could give his/her opinion on my work. It might need corrections - structure, word order,...

Hi again, Here's another sentence, actually I have two versions of the same sentence. Your suggestions are more than welcome: Although the fruits of human labour and wellbeing can be distributed on the basis of force, they can't be efficaciously and effectively created(?) and enhanced(?) on...

Q Do you have any detail on this Red Cross worker who was killed in Afghanistan? Any more than you said? MS. TUTWILER: No, other than he was a male. Q Who he was killed by? How he was killed? MS. TUTWILER: Not yet. "Translation:" Q Do you know anything about this worker who was killed in...

Paco: I think at least in the case Japanse people, they need some to be taught some grammar overtly at early stages when they learn English. JTT: Paco, this is one of the major reasons that Japanese consistently score the lowest, or near to, in tests of English. This grammar translation system...