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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Hi, is there any error on this sentence?Especially the one with "..the island tries or try? Please help, thanks

Kazuki has a dream that Canon has left. The people on the island tries to search for Canon but she is nowhere to be found.
  

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Kazuki dreams that Canon has left. The people on the island search for Canon, but she is nowhere to be found.

— Mister Micawber

  • Kazuki dreams that Canon has left.
  • The people on the island search for Canon, but she is nowhere to be found.
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Kazuki dreams that Canon has left. The people on the island search for Canon, but she is nowhere to be found.
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Thank you for correcting. But I would glad to know from my sentence which I used ( ...the island tries to search...). Please tell me which is the proper use, try or tries? Just for my knowledge.
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AnonymousThank you for correcting. But I would glad to know from my sentence which I used ( ...the island tries to search...). Please tell me which is the proper use, try or tries? Just for my knowledge.
people try ... 'people' indicates more than one person, and 'tries' only goes with a singular noun (one person or thing).

But "search"
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Kazuki has a dream that Canon had left. The people on the island tries to search for Canon but she is nowhere to be found.
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shadow beastKazuki has a dream that Canon had left.
No. "has a dream" doesn't go with "had left". That has a present and a past perfect, which is before the past. It skips the past completely.

Present - Past - Past Perfect
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It's not a good idea to skip a l
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