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Two heroes are available.

Hero #1: Please, send me an URL to that site.
Here #2: Go to www.bla.bla. Is it true that you look for?

Is the phrase "Is it true that you look for" correct?

How else could I say this?

Hellion
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oshliaer
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  • 'Look for' requires an object, which your sentence lacks. – Erik Kowal Jul 23 '14 at 11:39
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    As an aside, you likely mean "a URL", unless you pronounce "URL" as "earl", which only very few people ever do. – RegDwigнt Jul 23 '14 at 11:56
  • I think you meant something like "Is it the site you were looking for?" – Vilmar Jul 23 '14 at 12:05
  • @RegDwigнt People really do pronounce it that way. (Less often than they used to, though…?) Yahoo!'s cafeteria is still called URL's Cafe. –  Jul 23 '14 at 12:07
  • I think I don't know English =( – oshliaer Jul 23 '14 at 12:11
  • Can you perhaps tell us in Russian what it is you are trying to say? While you're at it, what's the deal with "heroes"? Very confusing. – RegDwigнt Jul 23 '14 at 12:38
  • Ест два участника: Первый: Пожалуйста, пришли мне ссылку того сайта Второй: Иди сюда www.bla.bla. Это то, что ты искал? – oshliaer Jul 23 '14 at 12:40
  • Not sure, then, where you got heroes from, or true. "There are two participants. A: Please, send me a link to that site. B: head to www.bla.bla. Is that what you've been looking for?" Or "Is this what you're looking for", or "is this the site you mean", or "is that what you're after", or "does it help", or any number of other rewordings. – RegDwigнt Jul 23 '14 at 12:45
  • In the future, please take such questions to our chat, or to our dedicated sister site for learners of the language. Thank you. – RegDwigнt Jul 23 '14 at 12:46
  • @AlexanderIvanov, just saw your comment on not knowing English. It isn't so bad to not know English. We can start anytime learn fast enough! It is an accommodating language! Please see if my answer below makes sense to you. Feel free to comment on it. –  Jul 23 '14 at 13:05

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In context, the following two possibilities make sense:

  1. Are you there yet?
    (I have given you a URL and I'd like to know if you have reached the webpage yet.)

  2. Is this the page you were looking for?
    (I have given you a URL and I would like confirmation that the result is indeed the result you expected.)

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PART 1: The Right Site

There are many ways of saying it. Some examples are:

Is that what you are looking for?
Is it the one you are looing for?
Is that the site you are looking for?
Is that the right site?
Does it match what you were expecting?

True cannot always be substituted for correct or right. I guess that is where your confusion stems from.

For instance, you can substitute correct or right for true in the following sentence:

This religion is the true way to salvation.

But you cannot substitute true for right (or correct) in the following one:

This road is the right way to Houston.

Hope this helps.

PART 2: A URL

As RegDwight has mentioned above, an should be used for vowel sounds and not literally for vowel letters. For instance, the following are correct:

an honest man, an hour, an umbrella, an apple, an invention, an elephant

But the following are incorrect:

an user, an united front, an U.N.O. member

So, it should be a URL instead of an URL, if you are pronouncing it as you-are-el. Also, since Hero #1 says "that site" and hence indicates a specific site, **the URL** will be more apt in your case unless you expect the site to have more than one URL (which is also entirely possible).

Feel free to ask if any of is unclear.

  • Glad to be of help, @AlexanderIvanov.

    By the way, your comment should use "has" instead of "have", as you are referring to a single post. The correct way to say this would be, "Your post HAS enlightened me."

    Happy learning!

     –  Jul 23 '14 at 13:15