Clive, I don't know how to thank you, really. Googling and my dictionaries didn't help me much when it comes to the question whether these collocations are OK/acceptable/rare/wrong. I am sure I will have another chance to use these

Hi metal.carratt and malojaszu, thanks a lot for your suggestion. Yep, you are right -- after googling I find the most common collocation is "be set at...", seems like.Thank you both! Still.. I might still want to use "is set to

Dear all, I have two questions of the same kind. Instead of ... #1. The target is set to 1,000 units per month. #2. The annual total production is estimated to be 12,000 units. ... using these sentences (and I believe these are correct), could

Cool Breeze, thank you SO MUCH for your help. Okay, next time I force myself to use "Please take a look at page ten in your handout" (it is so difficult to correct my own unnatural English, sigh). I would prefer: Look at page ten in

Dear all, One of these days when I wrote " Look at the page ten of your textbook ", I was told that it should be " Look at page ten ...", and if I add " the " before "page" it sounds rather wrong . Why on

Dear Mister Micawber, thank you VERY MUCH for your thorough help...! I am going to apply what I learned here to other financial documents to translate. I am so glad that I can use these expressions with confidence further on. While comparing my

Dear all, would you take a look at the following sentences? They are explaining items of a balance sheet; translation is mine. I would appreciate if you pointed out where my wording is inappropriate. Any suggestions are more than welcome. -- Next,

Dear Mister Micawber, thank you very much for your reply. It helps me a lot. I googled "forms of address" and checked several sites. Thank you for the tips. "Salutation" seems to be another term for this. But you gave the

Dear all, hope this is the right place to ask this question. You say "Mr. President" "Madam President" when talking to the president of the United States. How about other official names? For example, when talking to a judge,

I liked the chapter where he describes the way he enjoys Beethoven's Ninth. Pigs...? Oh I am not that sarcastic :))) Besides that sign is for my American coworkers. I respect them very, very much. How about this one..... "Fresh clean room