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25 jun 2015

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Since my youth, I was controlled by the fondness of my knowledge all day long; overcoming me and tend me to stay between the long shelves of the libraries at length. Feel free to correct any mistakes. soa natural?

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danny21

26 jun 2015

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It is written correctly, but the idea it's a little hard to comprehend. The sense of the sentence can be interpreted in many ways:

"Since my youth, I was controlled by the desires of my knowledge all day long; improving and testing myself, it usually had me in the library for long hours."

And still it sounds a bit unusual, but I believe that since it's kind of deep and poetic, it's ok. In any case we would have to see the original, but I don't know arabic...(yet).

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hamadababa

25 jun 2015

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Abbey14@ what makes it little natural? Are there some mistakes?

xhirachu

25 jun 2015

Inglês (EUA)

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Since I was young, I was overcome by my love for knowledge and tended to spend extensive amounts of time between the long library shelves.

(This still sounds like a sentence out of a book though, not everyday speech.)

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hamadababa

25 jun 2015

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It is a piece of an arabic text translated by me. Is it formally and grammatically correct? And if not so, feel free to explain; for example, is it mistaken to write "since my youth" ? Thank you in advance.

hamadababa

26 jun 2015

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Danny21. Feel free to correct any grammatical mistake or misuse.

hamadababa

26 jun 2015

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danny21

26 jun 2015

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It is written correctly, but the idea it's a little hard to comprehend. The sense of the sentence can be interpreted in many ways:

"Since my youth, I was controlled by the desires of my knowledge all day long; improving and testing myself, it usually had me in the library for long hours."

And still it sounds a bit unusual, but I believe that since it's kind of deep and poetic, it's ok. In any case we would have to see the original, but I don't know arabic...(yet).

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hamadababa

26 jun 2015

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So it is formally accepted, but naturally (evryday speech) not.

danny21

26 jun 2015

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I would say yes with just a little change in the part "Overcoming me and tend me..."
For
"Overcoming myself tended me..."

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hamadababa

26 jun 2015

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No, the main idea is; the fondness of the knowledge oblige me to read the Libraries' books. So it is a literary text. We demand HiNative programmers to create a literature evaluation button😂.

danny21

26 jun 2015

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And to make the idea a little bit clearer change "libraries at length" for
"Libraries for many hours, or long time,"

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hamadababa

26 jun 2015

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All your opinions are welcomed. But as you know, there are literary and academic texts that are hard to understand without a good grasp of the English language.