You took all the further questions from my hands. Just a small note:

So many times I have been wondering this: can the pronoun refer to the right in the sentence? These problems occur when you change the word order into Turkish. Now there is a rule to follow.

Every learner who has tried translating into the language she is learning knows that behind every choice there is a small story. One of the stories of this sentence is about choosing the right word for ´scratching´. It was a success.

The small victory of this week is understanding tenses and progressive forms a little bit better.

scalpel, sağ ol.

I´m going to count my pluses first.

Not that anyone asked my opinion but this is such a horrible song. Who would ever listen to such a loser?

I can´t see any poetry anywhere but thank you anyway, MarioninTurkey. (With my luck it is probably your future Nobel prize poet.)

What is the difference between this and that?

How come?

Might as well be.

He appears from here.

(My Try.)

My Try:

My days passed in vain,

hair got white in the long run on life,

but this crazy heart of mine

didn´t give up loving you.

I have begun to curse my soul

that fantasizes you into my world of dreams.

Like a rowboat which is lost in the sea

I didn´t give up loving you.

My Try:

I am waiting for you. But my only fear is if you get married in Egypt.

I have noticed marks of ergativity in Turkish but I didn´t understand them well enough even to ask. It seems that this innocent topic brings us to the heart of it. I will see the examples. Thanks, tunci. Thanks, si++.

ampul|un = stem + gen (modifying the next word, renk)

reng|i|n|i = stem + poss sg 3rd + -n- + acc

değiş|tir|me|si = stem + caus + inf + poss sg 3rd

What is the pink part doing there? Does it refer to

1. the preceding parts of the compound (ampulun rengini) or

2. a person, someone, anyone, who cares who?

In other words, in the light of your examples it seems to me that the logical object (ampul) of the infinitive takes genitive only if it is in the syntactic position of the real grammatical subject (that´s what happened when you added passive or deleted causative).

What do you say, could

         Ampulu değiştirmesi zor bir iş değil ---> It is not difficult for him to change the bulb.

be understood as a generic sentence? Does this "he" have to be a specific person?