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汽水鑵上印有 Share a Xoca-Xola with Rowena。

意思是同Rowena共飲一鑵汽水，還是一人一鑵﹖

有間金融機構的電視廣告有以下口號

Success (name of the financial institution) empowers your success.

Empower 在此句中用法是否錯了﹖

Success powers your success. 是否更正確﹖

You are being a CEO. You are valley passive to get the information from your staff.

How can the sentences above be improved?

Death Without Weeping: Has Poverty Ravaged Mother Love in the Shantytowns of Brazil? 一文中的一句：

We can begin to see that the seeming indifference of Alto mothers toward the death of some of their infants is but a pale reflection of the official indifference of church and state to the plight of poor women and children.

請大家翻譯一下。

註：Alto 是巴西一個地方 Alto do Cruzeiro (Crucifix Hill)

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有條粉腸話

5. Please fasten your seat belt. Here comes the tricky part in the professor's sentence.

but 'does not MAKE A LOT OF SENSE'...

Should we just say 'but doesn't make sense'?

WHAT THE HECK IS 'DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE'?

Is it logical(not technical) to say 'doesn't make a certain amount of sense' or 'doesn't make 1/16 sense'?

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條粉腸話 make a lot of sense 唔 X make sense，但我 google "make a lot of sense" 有557,000,000 條 links，條粉腸係咪一個頂五億﹖

PS

條粉腸ID 係 whatiswhat24，又叫自己 englishcorrector，仲有幾十個 IDs。

Sentence 1

A lot of people can testify that their senses still work, though not at the full-alert level, even in their sleep.

Sentence 2

People cannot testify themselves while they are sleeping, but people can be testified by other professionals.

Question 1

Does sentence 1 imply that people testify while they are sleeping?

Question 2

Are "testify themselves" and "can be testified" in sentence 2 used correctly?

Anyway, you are no match with me as always! Poor dumb!

Is there any mistake in the above sentence?

I hold him by the hand.

中文是以下那一句﹖

我徒手抓住他。

我抓住他的手。

Your answers are welcome even though you agree or not as long as you're not one of the mobs/fans in his group.

Can the word "mobs" in the above sentence be interpreted to mean individual persons? Is there a word that means a member of a mob?

Your answer is a big joke of which you never want to admit.

"of which" in the above sentence is used incorrectly. What are the correct expressions without changing the meaning. Thanks.

你鍾意點諗就點諗: This phrase usually happens in an argument.

Happens 係句中用得岩唔岩，點解，同應該點改﹖ 多謝大家。

The question is more correctly phrased in this way.

Can we use mathematical terms in English language?

Are sentences like the ones below acceptable?

I like the mild winter of Vancouver, minus the rain.

Your birthday present is a 2-week holiday in Hawaii, plus a companion.

I like the songs of these girl-singer groups, Super Gear, As One, Super Girls, less the vocal part.

What does the author want to say by the above sentence?

There being no bananas left (at home), I went to the supermarket to buy some.

(家中沒有香蕉，我到超市去買。)

On the sentence above, someone made these two statements:

1. "There" in the phrase is a redundancy.

Being no bananas left, I went to the supermarket to buy some.

(Ref: 《評論》我這樣翻譯可以嗎？)

2. There being no bananas left (at home), I went to the supermarket to buy some. =/= (NOT EQUAL TO) (家中沒有香蕉，我到超市去買。)

(Ref: 《評論》我這樣翻譯可以嗎？II)

Were these statements valid?

Is the following sentence correct?

There being no bananas left, I went to the supermarket to buy some.

What is the purpose of "There" at the beginning of the sentence? Can "There" be removed from the sentence?

To speak foul language or not, it is your call. (Ref: 《評論》Make sense of a phrase, 補充)

Is the above sentence a case of "dangling modifier"?

Wiki's definition of a dangling modifier:

A dangling modifier is an ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all.

Example:

Walking down Main Street, the trees were beautiful.

(Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier)

In response to the sentence

"Feeling hot, I took off my coat",

someone wrote,

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Feeling hot, I took off my coat. (TWO EVENTS CONFLICT)

(Absolutely Chinglish -好熱呀, 除咗件衫先.)

If you take off your coat already, how can you take your coat off again????

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Does anyone know what this guy is talking about?

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self-confidence

Do native speakers have this word? Is the "self" part redundant?

Examples:

The boy lacks confidence.

The boy lacks self-confidence.