Dmytro
Questions om Grammar and other things No matter when you arrive, call me. We have "no matter" and two parts of the sentence: 1 - when you arrive, 2 - call me. Does the first part of a sentence in general should be always in Present Simple? And what about the second part? In which tensen I can use the 2nd part? Please, write examples in different tenses. How to learn articles? In Russian or Ukrainian we don't have them so it's quite difficult for me to learn them. Do you have some graffic tables or easy rules?
28 de may. de 2015 17:11
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I'm not certain about the grammar of 'no matter' sentences. The 'imperative' 2nd part will generally stay simple. You can put the 1st part into the past, but this will make the 2nd part less simple.

I'll try by example:

(Note that 'No matter...' is primarily American English. As a British speaker I'm much more likely to say "It doesn't matter..." in it's place)

 

No matter when you arrive, call me  <em>but</em>

No matter when you arrived, you should have called me.

 

No matter what mark you get, you're guaranteed a place.

No matter how disoriented you are, keep going (refers to future <em>or</em> present)

No matter how disoriented you get, keep going (only future)

No matter what the consequences (are), come back.

No matter what the consequences were, you should have come back.

Regardless of the consequences, you should have come back.

Regardless of how you do it, get out of there.

 

Just avoid constructions such as 'No matter when <em>you will</em> arrive...'

That is quite a difficult question.

 

Артикли - так кошмар!

Это дело довольно, скажем так, психологическое. То есть, выбор между артиклями зависит от того, что свою читатель или слушатель имеет ли на уме то же объект, как Вы.

Во-первых, сообразите, когда Вы используете существительное, знает ли читатель какой точный же объект о котором Вы говорите? Это исчислимое и единственное существительное? Или множественное или неисчислимое?

 

Если партнер не знает сам точно какой объект - может быть это один из многих, или какой-то объект только вообще ---> исчислимое и единственное = a ---> следующее слово начинаться с гласным звуком? Нет = a. Да, гласным = an

 

---> множественное или неисчислимое = артиклей нет

 

- There's a rat in the kitchen. <em>Which rat? Partner doesn't know. Some/any rat.</em> Countable, Singular

- A noise started under the floor. <em>Which sound? Partner doesn't know - noone has heard it before now.</em> Countable, Singular

-_Noises started under the floor. Plural

- I just bought an ashtray. <em>Partner did not know of this object before now.</em> Countable, Singular, +Vowel sound

Compare: - I just bought a new ashtray

 

Свой партнер/зритель знает сам какой точной объект = the

- The rat is in the kitchen. <em>Which rat? Our pet rat, we both already know of this rat</em>. Singular

- The noise/s started under the floor <em>again</em>. <em>The noise/s we have heard (or heard of) before.</em>

- I've borrowed the ashtray. <em>The one we already have; the one we both know about.</em>

 

*Это ясно слишком сложная тема для точного описания на моем слабом русском конечно, поэтому я предлагаю, что Вы поискать Practical English Usage (Michael Swan) - хорошое введение при артиклей начинается на 83 странице, если я не ошибаюсь.*

Удачи!

 

 

28 de mayo de 2015
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