carry out welding works [of, on, other preposition ?] ... steels
English translation: 'to carry out work on smth.' is the correct collocation
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| 09:18 Mar 19, 2007 |
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| Selected response from: Caryl Swift Poland Local time: 16:56 | ||||
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| 3 +7 | on - but please see below |
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| 4 +1 | weld |
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| 1 | rephrase - improve |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1weld Explanation: Why not simply use "weld" as a verb... We can ***weld***, carbon steels, aluminium, copper (electric arc welding, argon-arc welding, contact welding, automatic submerged-arc welding). |
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rephrase - improve Explanation: Alexander - you could rephrase the original to make it more natural in English, possibly along the lines: Our welding service expertise allows us to work with a wide range of materials, including... Unless the customer restricts me I always do that. Lowest confidence as this does not answer your question. HTH |
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3 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +7
peer agreement (net): +7on - but please see below Explanation: carry out work on something is the full collocation -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2007-03-19 09:26:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry - I clicked the mouse in the wrong place. However, I have some doubts as to the use of 'workS' here. I'd say that 'works' normally refers more to the place in which the job is done - the steelworks, for example. So here, I'd suggest 'work': 'We can carry out welding work on any alloy steels, carbon steels, aluminium, copper (electric arc welding, argon-arc welding, contact welding, automatic submerged-arc welding).' Another way to deal with it would be to drop the 'work(s)' altogether: 'We can carry out the welding of ..... ' but I don't know if the original text will allow you to do that? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 mins (2007-03-19 09:33:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Alexander, forgive me for asking, but do you really need the 'can' in the source sentence? I wonder if it's similar to Polish - where this modal verb is very often used in such circumstances? The thing is that, to my ear at any rate, in English it sounds a little uncertain, rather than positive. Is it possible for you to use either 'will', or just omit the modal altogether? In Polish, this doesn't change the meaning at all - in fact, it's the use of 'can' which makes the meaning more ambigious. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 mins (2007-03-19 09:38:25 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry - that last sentence should read 'Translating from Polish, this doesn't...' |
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