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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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If I have the following sentence: It was stupid of me to have asked someone like Mark for money!, how am I supposed to transform it so I can have another variant: I............... than to have asked someone like Mark for money! (obligatory element to use: better)?
  

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Wasn't this discussed in your textbook? The expected answer is like this. I should have known better than to have asked ...

  • Wasn't this discussed in your textbook?
  • The expected answer is like this.
  • I should have known better than to have asked ...
  • Or possibly like one of these.
  • I [know / knew] better than to have asked ...
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Wasn't this discussed in your textbook?

The expected answer is like this.

I should have known better than to have asked ...

Or possibly like one of these.

I [know / knew] better than to have asked ...

CJ

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