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Wangqh2696122 Posted 14 years ago
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Are the sentences correct?

I am so glad that you have succeed
Mr. Green was so glad that her dayghter won the first prize in the singing competition.
  

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first one should be correct. I think the second one should go like this: Mr. Green was very glad that her daughter won the first prize in the singing comeptition.

— Anonymous

  • first one should be correct.
  • I think the second one should go like this: Mr.
  • Green was very glad that her daughter won the first prize in the singing comeptition.
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first one should be correct. I think the second one should go like this: Mr. Green was very glad that her daughter won the first prize in the singing comeptition.
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wangqh2696122I am so glad that you have succeed
Mr. Green was so glad that his daughter won the first prize in the singing competition.
These are both fine for me in casual use. I use "so" to mean "very" in this way.
A more formal rendering would replace "so" with "very" in both sentences.

Note that Mr. Green is a male, so it's HIS
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Wonderful! What about changing "that" into "when"?
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wangqh2696122I am so glad that you have succeed
I am so lad that you (have) succeeded.
wangqh2696122Mr. Green was so glad that her dayghter won the first prize in the singing competition.
Mr Green was so glad that his daughter won...
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