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Masanori Takaoka Posted 11 years ago
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1. The sales were not as large as we had expected at the beginning of the week. 2. The sales were not as much as we had expected at the beginning of the week. 2. The sales were not as high as we had expected at the beginning of the week. 3. The...
1. The sales were not as large as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
2. The sales were not as much as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
2. The sales were not as high as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
3. The sales did not increase as much as we expected at the beginning of the week.
4. The sales did not grow as much as we estimated at the beginning of the week.
5. The amount of sales was not as much as expected in the beginning of the week.
6. The sales were not so good as I had estimated at the beginning of the week.
7. The sales did not improve as much as we expected at the beginning of the week.
8. We did not sell more than we had expected to at the beginning of the week.
9. The sales were less than that had been expected in the beginning of the week.
10. The sales did not increase more than we had expected at the beginning of the week.
11. The amount of sales was not as large as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
12. The sales growth as not as much as we had expected on Sunday.
13. The increase in sales was not as high as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
14. We estimated the sales at the beginning of the week, but the result was not as good as the estimate.
Could you correct any mistakes? Sorry for asking so much.
2. The sales were not as much as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
2. The sales were not as high as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
3. The sales did not increase as much as we expected at the beginning of the week.
4. The sales did not grow as much as we estimated at the beginning of the week.
5. The amount of sales was not as much as expected in the beginning of the week.
6. The sales were not so good as I had estimated at the beginning of the week.
7. The sales did not improve as much as we expected at the beginning of the week.
8. We did not sell more than we had expected to at the beginning of the week.
9. The sales were less than that had been expected in the beginning of the week.
10. The sales did not increase more than we had expected at the beginning of the week.
11. The amount of sales was not as large as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
12. The sales growth as not as much as we had expected on Sunday.
13. The increase in sales was not as high as we had expected at the beginning of the week.
14. We estimated the sales at the beginning of the week, but the result was not as good as the estimate.
Could you correct any mistakes? Sorry for asking so much.
Top answer
#9 is wrong. Possibly you meant "what" rather than "that". There is a typo in #12.
- #9 is wrong.
- Possibly you meant "what" rather than "that".
- There is a typo in #12.
- I prefer "at the beginning of the week" to "in".
- Otherwise these seem laregly acceptable, but that's not to say that some may not be stylistically preferable over others.
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#9 is wrong. Possibly you meant "what" rather than "that". There is a typo in #12. I prefer "at the beginning of the week" to "in". Otherwise these seem laregly acceptable, but that's not to say that some may not be stylistically preferable over others. Reading them en masse like this, the brain tends to glaze over, but the wording of #5 may be a little clumsy, for instance.
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GPY#9 is wrong. Possibly you meant "what" rather than "that". There is a typo in #12. I prefer "at the beginning of the week" to "in". Otherwise these seem laregly acceptable, but that's not to say that some may not be stylistically preferable over others. Reading them en masse like this, the brain tends to glaze over, but the wording of #5 may be a little clumsy, for ins
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Masanori TakaokaCould you tell me which ones sound unnatural?With the few actual errors corrected, all of them sound to me like sentences that could be constructed by native speakers. In that sense, I would not say that any actually sound "unnatural".
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