Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Register transfer exercise

Ciao a tutti un'altra volta,
Sempre facendo gli ultimi esercizi per il CAE, ho trovato tre punti di un 
esercizio di "register transfer" che non sono riuscito a completare in modo 
appropriato. La consegna è quella di dire la stessa cosa espressa nel primo 
testo completando i gap del secondo testo, che di solito è di registro 
diverso (formale/informale), con una sola parola. Questa parola non si deve 
trovare nel testo di partenza.
Riporto qui la parte relativa ai tre gap che non sono riuscito a riempire:
<< To help your cat stay healthy you need to feed it properly - good cat 
foods are absolutely fine. Remember that dried cat food provides tha right 
amount of all the important things your cat needs so this is what he should 
be eating most of the time. (Make sure your cat doesn't get fussy of food he 
will and won't eat.) To get rid of fur balls, try giving him oily fish. And 
for a treat let him have an egg but remember: eggs need to be cooked 
otherwise danger of poisoning>>
Qui il testo con le parole mancanti:
<< In terms of keeping your cat in good physical ___ (shape), it is totally 
____ (important???? boh) to give your cat a regular diet of better-quality 
cat foods. In general, high-quality dried food gives the best ____ (range) 
of minerals and vitamins and should therefore be the ____ (base) of your 
cat's diet. (Remember not to let your cat____ (????) to you which brand or 
flavour he will eat.) Oily fish can be given as this is very good for the 
____ (stop?? end??? no, non mi suonano bene) of fur balls. [...] >>
Magari i tre termini che non riesco a trovare sono banalissimi, ma non mi 
vengono proprio in mente.
Grazie a chi mi vorrà aiutare.
:-)
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
--
"People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial. That may be so. But 
at least it is not as superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder 
of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The 
true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." (Oscar Wilde, 
The Picture of Dorian Gray) 

 of fur balls. [...] >>
Elimination?
FB

 cat foods.
-- 
Enrico C
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3/3 for FB (ignoring the typo in the second) ; indeed , 4/4 ('basis') ; 
perhaps even 5/4 , since as he says 'totally' is certainly tautological , 
and sounds silly .
Mike 

 3/3 for FB (ignoring the typo in the second) ; 
I beg to differ: "totally necessary" in that sentence doesn't sound quite 
right to me. Still, I am not a native speaker.
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 of fur balls. [...] >>
resolution?
-- 
ciao
Es
ICQ 223465821 - MSN enrico81 chiocciola/at gmail punto/dot com
"isolated idiopathic hemiballismus is always an appropriate excuse"


Nor to me - nor to FB ! 'Necessary' is all that's needed . I was going to 
suggest 'essential' , as you have yourself , but essential is an even 
stronger version of necessary , and makes 'totally' even more redundant !
Mike 

 Nor to me - nor to FB ! 'Necessary' is all that's needed . I was going to 
Now I see. You agreed with FB's perplexity, not with his "Necessary?". So do 
I...
:)
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news:4ep3tkF...@individual.net...
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I see that Es has offered 'advisable' as a suggestion ; I was actually going 
to say (but decided to keep it simple!) in the above post that logically 
you'd have to fill the gap with a word like 'advisable' - but to me 'totally 
advisable' sounds very odd indeed , and I don't think a native speaker would 
ever say that (though if Es is English I'll have to change that to 'most 
native speakers'!) .
Mike 

 native speakers'!) .
let's say you don't need to change your mind :)
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required (boh?)

 Elimination?
Ma porca boia, ci potevo arrivare benissimo qui. In italiano non mi veniva 
in mente altro che "fine".
Va be'.
Grazie mille per il tuo aiuto!
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 A "dictate" non ci avrei mai pensato. Merci!
Così di getto, neanch'io, ma quel "to" mi ha indirizzato verso un verbo 
di un certo tipo.
Ciao, FB

 un certo tipo.
Già.
A me venivano in mente un po' di verbi che necessitavano del "to", ma non 
andavano bene per il significato della frase.
Tipo: "don't let him leave to you to decide", ma significava il contrario di 
quello che dovevo dire!
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