1. When does the action take place? Think of past, present and future tenses. Is there an expression of time? (Think of FYNEJAS, oh lady W)
2. Does the sentence contain a conditional? If so, which type of conditional ? Choose 0,1,2,3 structures.
2. Is it an active or passive sentence?
3. Word order: expressions of place and time.
4. Be careful with: genetives, plurals and punctuation.
5. Much/many and little/less/few.
6. Infinitive/gerund
7. Modals
8. Inversion (when we use a negative adverb or adverb phrase at the beginning of the sentence:not only, hardly, never...)
9. Check yourself? Have you translated every word?