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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Apparently
Which is natural? Apparently boxes are messed up inside room / It seems boxes are messed up inside room.
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" are both fine in themselves. At minimum it should be "inside the room", but even with that correction the sentence sounds faintly strange and may not be the most natural way of saying what you mean. Do you mean something like "Apparently the room is a mess, with boxes everywhere" (some/any boxes), or are you talking about some specific boxes of interest that the listener knows about?
- " are both fine in themselves.
- At minimum it should be "inside the room", but even with that correction the sentence sounds faintly strange and may not be the most natural way of saying what you mean.
- Do you mean something like "Apparently the room is a mess, with boxes everywhere" (some/any boxes), or are you talking about some specific boxes of interest that the listener knows about?
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"Apparently..." and "It seems..." are both fine in themselves. At minimum it should be "inside the room", but even with that correction the sentence sounds faintly strange and may not be the most natural way of saying what you mean. Do you mean something like "Apparently the room is a mess, with boxes everywhere" (some/any boxes), or are you talking about some specific boxes of interest tha
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