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What is a sentence?*
A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete idea.
**What are the levels of translation discussed in the lesson?
Word level, sentence level, and discourse level.
. **What does sentence translation focus on?**
It focuses on translating the full meaning and structure of a sentence.
What is formal equivalence in translation?**
Translating word-for-word, keeping the structure close to the original.
What is dynamic equivalence in translation?**
Translating the meaning in a natural way for the target language.
*What is the basic English sentence structure (SVO)?**
Subject-Verb-Object (e.g., "She eats apples").
What is an idiom?
A phrase whose meaning is different from the literal words (e.g., "kick the bucket").
*Why can word-for-word translation cause problems
It may change the meaning or sound unnatural.
*What is a speech act in sentence translation?**
A sentence that performs a function, like asking, requesting, or warning.
*Give an example of a sentence that needs contextual understanding.**
"He kicked the bucket" — this means "He died," not literally kicking a bucket.
What are some tools used in sentence translation?**
Corpora, dictionaries, machine translation tools (like Google Translate).
What is one limitation of machine translation?**
It may not understand culture, idioms, or sentence-level meaning.
*Why is it important to translate sentences accurately?**
Because meaning often depends on the whole sentence, not just individual words.
