Tetiana Mukolaivna, Kyiv: «Could you translate, please, Future Perfect Tense?»
To begin with, Future Perfect Tense is a grammatical structure, translated as майбутнійдоконанийчас. It is formed by means of auxiliary verbs shall or will, and Perfect form (have + Participle II)
For instance:
ThousandsofforeignerswillhavearrivedinKyivbytheendofMay. – ТисячііноземцівприбудутьдоКиєва наприкінцітравня.
We shall have finished restoring this castle by next week. – Мизавершуємороботузвідновлення цьогозамкананаступномутижні.
Pay your attention to preposition by. It indicates an action that will be performed by the time in future.
Muhailo Gnatetsky, Kyiv: "I can find the English variant for an international e-mail sign".
E-mail Symbol @, usually called "собака" or "собачка" is translated into English as "the at sign".
@ is used since 1971. At that time an American programmer Ray Tomlinson, who was trying to tackle the problem of message exchange among users of the military computer net Arpanet, successes in sending the first in the history e-mail letter to the address registered at the other computer.
Tomlinson used @ instead of preposition "at" (на). So, user@machine means: a user at a computer.
Martinenko Ill’a: "I’m eager to learn how to give compliments in English. How do Englishmen give compliments? What compliments can be used with teachers? What compliment do lovers say?
Here are some words used in the English-speaking countries as compliments in different situations:
Compliments for teachers/tutors:
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You are a great teacher. - Ви– чудовий вчитель (ви просто супер!)
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You are the best tutor I have ever met. - Ви– кращій з усіх вчителів/репетиторів, яких я зустрічав.
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You are an inspiring teacher. - Ви– вчитель, який пробуджує інтерес до навчання.
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You are a brilliant teacher. - Ви– блискучий вчитель.
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You are a first-class teacher. - Ви– Неперевершений вчитель.
Compliments used by teachers and lovers:
Hanna, Kyiv: "How can I say in English "будьте здорові!", when somebodyколи sneezes?"
Hanna, Englishman say God bless you or just Bless you!
Mukola Petrovych, Kyiv: "How to read correctly abbreviations? Are letters pronounced as in the alphabet or as single words?"
Mukola Petrovych, there are no strict abbreviations reading rules.
In many case they are pronounced as individual first letters:
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UK (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) – Сполучене Королівство Великої Британії та Північної Ірландії).
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CIA (the Central Intelligence Agency) - ЦРУ
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WHO (the World Health Organization) - ВОЗ
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WTO (the World Trade Organization) - ВТО
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UN (the United Nations Organization) - ООН
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ID (identification card) – свідоцтво особи.
Some abbreviations can be read as full words:
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NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
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UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
There are also abbreviations which pronunciations can’t be explained by any rule.
For example, DFID (the Department for International Development) Englishmen don’t read as a word but very uncommonly: [DIFID].
Learn, as long as you live!
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