SHORT SEMINARS 

• PHRASALS REVISITED  - We ll put them to work . We ll practise using them and in this way, learn them 

• IDIOMS, PROVERBS  AND SAYINGS  How many do we actually understand correctly ? Do you, as a foreign speaker feel at ease using them ? 

• COGNATES AND MID OR PARTIAL COGNATES  THis Short Seminar is particularly useful to translators and translators to be 

Each lasts two classes . Please consult about dates and fees at www.centroingles.com.ar  We ll be glad to respond

PUNCTUATION WOES
Look at this video and see how ommitting a comma can lead to confusion

 http://video.about.com/esl/Quick-Tip--What-is-an-Oxford-Comma-.htm
This one that one of our students wrote, is a bit funny

My husband who lives in Australia is a successful business man

Did this lady mean that she had more than one husband ? Was she bigamous ?
Certainly not  The student should have written

My husband, who lives in Australia, is a successful business man

Now we know she had only one husband and she happened to include some additional information about him , that was all .
BYE

Alejandro Altimir

Concession

CONCESSIVE CLAUSES   http://writesite.elearn.usyd.edu.au/m2/m2u4/m2u4s4/m2u4s4_4_8.htm

Look at this sentence 

Much as he had always believed in her fiancee ´ s  love, he was now in doubt whether she really was actually  in lov e with him or it was just an infatuation 

Hard though he tried , he had little hope of suceeding 

Here the contrast is sharp, robust, no doubts that the situation is  contrary to expectations .

Please red the link above

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