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Language Questions / Re: unless... don't
« Last post by admin on Today at 09:30:23 pm »
But also:

1. You will won't get a good grade in the course unless you don't if you do your homework.
2. You will won't get a good grade in the course unless if you do your homework carefully.
3. You will won't get a good grade in the course unless if you don't play computer games.
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Language Questions / Re: unless... don't
« Last post by zhonglc_2016 on Today at 04:30:34 pm »
Got it. Thank you both. 
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Language Questions / Re: ---- think after the flood
« Last post by admin on Today at 10:25:32 am »
No - it means that everything stopped, the slate was wiped clean, and thinking started again.
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Language Questions / Re: unless... don't
« Last post by admin on Today at 10:23:58 am »
Britta's suggestion there is spot on:
>You will not get a good grade in the course unless you do your homework.

1. You will get a good grade in the course unless you don't if you do your homework.

This sentence comes from a Chinese grammar book.
I think it is nonsensical or I am wrong. Is it correct?
It is nonsensical

2. You will get a good grade in the course unless if you do your homework carefully.
3. You will get a good grade in the course unless if you don't play computer games.

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Language Questions / Re: unless... don't
« Last post by Britta on Today at 07:52:09 am »
Well, the sense of the sentence is debatable since a good grade depends on more than just doing your homework. From the grammar point of view it is fine, though.

You will get a good grade in the course unless (=except if) you don't do your homework.
or, in other words
You will get a good grade in the course if you (always) do your homework.

I think you're confusing "unless" with "not - unless":

You will not get a good grade in the course unless you do your homework.

Interesting side remark: this sentence makes much more sense. It says, homework is required for good grades, whereas the original sentence says, homework is the only requirement for good grades.


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Language Questions / ---- think after the flood
« Last post by t k on Today at 02:33:37 am »
How old might this Gletkin be? Thirty-six or
seven, at the most; he must have taken part in the Civil War as
a youth and seen the outbreak of the Revolution as a mere boy.
That was the generation which had started to think after the
flood. It had no traditions, and no memories to bind it to the
old, vanished world. It was a generation born without umbilical
cord.  (from Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler; a larger context is here; use ctrl-f to locate the sentence)

Please explain "think after the flood".  Does it mean "think as the majority think"?  Thanks.  --- tk
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Language Questions / unless... don't
« Last post by zhonglc_2016 on July 16, 2019, 11:31:33 pm »
Hello all,

1. You will get a good grade in the course unless you don't do your homework.

This sentence comes from a Chinese grammar book.
I think it is nonsensical or I am wrong. Is it correct?

2. You will get a good grade in the course unless you do your homework carefully.
3. You will get a good grade in the course unless you don't play computer games.

2&3 are by myself. What do you think of them?


Many many thanks.


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Language Questions / Re: others would do (to) you
« Last post by zhonglc_2016 on July 13, 2019, 12:20:31 pm »
Got it. Many thanks again.
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Language Questions / Re: others would do (to) you
« Last post by admin on July 13, 2019, 11:10:05 am »
No: it doesn't.
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Language Questions / Re: a better book
« Last post by navi on July 13, 2019, 06:02:26 am »
Thank you very much, Duncan,

I think  'Significant' is better than 'important'.

Gratefully,
Navi
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