No, you're not wrong. Rover has changed your "I give a special gift to you" to "I have a special gift for you".Am I wrong?
No, you're not wrong. Rover has changed your "I give a special gift to you" to "I have a special gift for you".
We don't use the simple present tense for actions like this.
Do you understand how to use the present tense for action? In one of your others threads you have something like "They invite me to a party". We don't use the present tense like that.
There is almost no situation where you'd say, "I give a special gift to you". Do you understand this?
Well, you can't do that and expect to write good English. I'd suggest you stop translating word for word immediately, and your progress will probably improve dramatically. The structures of English and Chinese are just too different to do this - as are the structures of any two languages, really.I'm confused with that. Please explain it to me.
I understand English or read a news in English that I tried to translate from English to Chinese with word by word.
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