Section outline

  • Scientific Texts 

    Unit 17

    Translating into Turkish: Excerpt from Supernature by Lyall Watson. 

    Grammar Points 

    -  Most (Exercise 17.1)

    “Most marine research units are established on the coast.” 

    -   -ing clauses (Exercise 17.2)

    “They had a marked tidal rhythm, opening their shells to feed at high tide and closing them during the ebb.” 

    -   Prepositions in time expressions (Exercise 17.3)

    “On the fifteenth day Brown noticed a slippage in the rhythm.” 

    -   Past perfect tense (Exercise 17.4)

    “On the fifteenth day Brown noticed that a slippage in the rhythm had occurred.” 

    -   Conditionals (Exercise 17.5)

    “The oysters now opened up at the time the tide would have flooded Evanston – had the town been on the shore and not perched on the bank of a Great Lake 580 feet above sea level.”