It sounds not so natural in English to me. What do you say?

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Would you like to point out any grammatical errors in the letter below? Of course you need not to pick out all the errors. Just point out two or three mistakes as you with.

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@oristarA,

Verb tenses in the sentences don't match the message. The writer wanted to list this things that happened in the past.

If he WAS there, then he "had, demonstrated, worked"

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@PUNKEY,

Lot of "he"s there. It sounds rather awkward to me.

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@oristarA,

Ori, not your doing but many such links don't permit highlight-copy by the usu means

Wondering whether "operating theater" and "temporal bone lab" oughttabe cap

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Oristar wrote:

It sounds rather awkward to me.

And this is what is awkward to me :

Punkey wrote:

to list this things

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@oristarA,

"He has worked in two occasions a full day with me. . . ."

Awkward indeed! How about "He has worked two full days with me"?

"He has a great future in front."

In front of what? Maybe "He has a great future in front of him"?

PS: I don't claim perfect spelling, or whatever. Just working with the original request.

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@oristarA,

I understand the meaning.The are some misspelled words."he" is used alot and maybe it can be condensed.

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@roger,

Roger
Those are also what stood out to me. I don't know if oristarA wants British English or American English.

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@trying2learn,

I have often wondered about that. On this one, it would have been nice to be able to copy and paste, but I just couldn't make it work.

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@roger,

There you go, this is the text.

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9681/00mu.png

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I would bet money the writer is not a native English speaker. I have used an OCR program on the image file that was linked to.

Dear Zengmin,
It was a great pleasure to have Dr. Yucheng Wang with us until the end of October. Dr. Wang has been very assiduous in the operating theatre of the Lucerne Hospital and in the temporal bone laboratory. He has a very bright and well prepared mind. One could see that he had a good teacher in Shanghai! He has achieved some exemplary temporal bones preparations illustrating the various surgical procedures seen during his fellowship. He has worked in two occasions a full day with me in the temporal bone lab in order to learn the techniques of drilling for the infratemporal approaches. I have admired is quick grasp of clinical situations and his excellent technical skills. I am sure Dr. Wang will be of great help in your institution because of his dedication, natural skills and great urge to achieve perfection in his clinical work. On top of this he is a very well educated, reliable and straightforward person. Congratulation for having discovered and trained such a good otologic surgeon. He has a great future in front.

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@trying2learn,

trying2learn wrote:

There you go, this is the text.

It's not. It's an image of some text, which is Roger's point.

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@contrex,

He wrote he couldn't copy and paste. It is the text that the link was about. With all due respect, I just provided the text.

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@roger,

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...it would have been nice to be able to copy and paste, but I just couldn't make it work.

Rog, me nuther. I guess we're at the mercy of its software in whatever link

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@trying2learn,

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There you go, this is the text.

Most sincere thank you, Try. I must also learn to use the Cloud for this purpose

Edited to remark, our apologies Try, but we can't copy the cloud version either

Apparently Con was successful, what a clever chap. So Con how did you do it

With "Temporal-Bone Lab" caps just guessing it's a real entity; while I'll concede the hyphen forming compound adjective is controversial

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My thanks to both of you for getting the material on screen. I picked out two points of irritation and think I will go spread confusion somewhere else.

I do wish I had had that to work with in the beginning.

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@contrex,

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I have used an OCR program on the image file that was linked to.

Thanks Con. I can only admire such digital talents but at 83 (yesterday) there's not much hope to catch up

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@trying2learn,

trying2learn wrote:

With all due respect, I just provided the text.

You provided an image (picture) of the text. It cannot be copied as text, edited or spell checked.

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@contrex,

Besides, he's obviously well educated; while I can testify also reliable and straightforward

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

I would bet money the writer is not a native English speaker.

I expect Ugo Fisch is a German speaking Swiss.

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