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Why is it possible that the shop still exists?
✔ How is it possible that the shop still exists?
これは、Ngram や Google を見る限りどちらも使われています。Why のほうが少ないものの、論理的には why でしょう。
✘ They all happen to be related to ocean.
✔ They all happen to be related to the ocean.
✘ This is yesterday's sky.
✔ This is the sky from yesterday.
✘ What kind of mother doesn't wish hapiness for her own child?
✔ What kind of a mother doesn't wish happiness for her own child?
the stern mountains of the Caucasus〔これだけだと、コーカサス山脈の山々なのかコーカサス地方の山々なのかは不明〕
"Mom, I think we are living to be happy!"
✔ "Mom," she said, " I think we are living to be happy!"
It's past 8:00 pm. I have to do the dishes and fix a meal for me.
✔ It's already past 8:00 p.m. I have to do the dishes and fix a meal for myself.
✔ I have to do the dishes and fix something to eat.
I've used my brain hard enough for the day.
✔ I've used my brain enough for today (the day).
Have I got used to goat milk yoghurt too much?《英》
Have I gotten used to goat milk yoghurt too much?《北米》
People are busier than ever with new technologies and just don't care about good old sayings anymore.
✔ People are busier than ever with new technology and simply do not care about good old sayings anymore.
✘ I now know that she didn't know what happiness really means.
✔ I now know that she didn't know what happiness really meant.
〔今も不変の事実については現在形でよいとも聞きますが、おそらくもっと科学的に不変な事実や、進行中の仕事で変更の有無の認識などが重要な時でもない限り、時制の一致は、することが好まれるのでしょう〕
✘ Next morning, when I leave for school, I answered it to my mom who came to the entrance with me to see me off.
✔ The next morning, before I left for school, I answered her question:
✔ The next morning, when I was leaving for school, I answered it to my mom who came to the entrance with me to see me off.
▲ When I was a high school student, one day in our conversation, my mom asked me what I think we were living for.
NGram result ↗
✔ When I was in high school, one day we had a conversation, and my mom asked me what I thought we were living for.
✔ When I was in high school, one day when we were talking my mom asked me what I thought we were living for.
To be economically successful is not only way of being happy.
✔ Economic success is not the only route (way) to happiness.
✔ Being economically successful is not the only way to be happy.
Ro不定詞は形式主語を立てて後回し。
Google Ngram Viewerによる統計:
✘ When literally sick and tired and still pressured to work, there is no way of being happy.
✔ When one is literally sick and tired and still pressured to work, there is no way of being happy.
✔ When you are literally sick and tired and still pressured to work, there is no way to be happy.
✘ If you don't like the flavor of anchovy, I can't help, but for Brussels sprouts, the famous bitterness is caused by overcooking.
✔ If you don't like the flavor of anchovies, I can't help, but as for Brussels sprouts, the infamous bitterness is caused by overcooking.
- As for me, …
- Yes to the death penalty, but as for a sales-tax increase for education, she says she has "concerns". (Seattle Times, 2004)
✘ Anchovy was almost melted away, though.
✔ The anchovies had almost melted away, though.
大過去〔その時にはもう~だった〕
✘ Brussels sprouts were just right tenderness and sweet!!
✔ The Brussels sprouts were just the right tenderness, and it's sweet as well!!
Then I added a cup of water to the pan, and brought it to boil.
✔ Then I added a cup of water to the pan, and brought it to a boil.〔決まり文句〕
✘ Isn't this sentence should be…
✔ Shouldn't this sentence be…
✘That has worked just the right for me.
✔ That has worked just the right for me.
✔ This feels just right.
✘ These are same.
✔ These are the same.
✔ She hasn't been the same since last week.
✔ They are the same thing.
✔ The textures feel the same.
✔ The textures feel the same way.
But ✔ Same old thing