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Cool Breeze Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
As a child
1. As a child, you had to obey and trust adults.
When you were a child, you had to obey and trust adults.
2. As a child, your mother told you there's no such thing as monsters. (Nat Geo Wild TV channel)
When your mother was a child, she told you there's no such thing as monsters.
There are very young mothers in the Anglo-Saxon world.
CB
When you were a child, you had to obey and trust adults.
2. As a child, your mother told you there's no such thing as monsters. (Nat Geo Wild TV channel)
When your mother was a child, she told you there's no such thing as monsters.
There are very young mothers in the Anglo-Saxon world.
CB
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Cool Breeze 2. As a child, your mother told you there's no such thing as monsters. '.
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Cool Breeze2. As a child, your mother told you there's no such thing as monsters.The writer would not win any good style prizes, but most people would receive the intended message, "When you were a child, your mother told you ...'.
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fivejedjonmost people would receive the intended messageEven I did, although I'm not a native speaker. I just posted this as I thought, right or wrong, that many native speakers might not notice anything grammatically odd in the sentence and I wondered what kind of comments there would be. I'm not saying the sentence is wrong. I just find it interesting.
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