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Tai Kim Yi Posted 5 years ago
Grammar
A place in the queue
Hello,
This is the situation I want to express - I was the 101st in the queue. If I were a place earlier, I would have received the souvenir. (The first 100 people in the queue will get the souvenir.)
The sentence sounds odd. How can I improve it?
Many thanks,
K
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You can say: I was 101st in the queue. If I had been one place further ahead, I would have received the souvenir.
- You can say: I was 101st in the queue.
- If I had been one place further ahead, I would have received the souvenir.
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You can say:
I was 101st in the queue. If I had been one place further ahead, I would have received the souvenir.
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