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Contiluo Posted 15 years ago
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Are the following sentences compitable?

(1) After I checked up the data, I was surprised to know that the owner of the lost wallet seemed to have met before.

(2) His name was familiar to me, so I tried hard to recall who he was.

(3) Surprisingly, I figured out that he was one of my classmates in elemantary school.
  

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I have underlined some problems: (1) After I checked up the data , I was surprised to know that the owner of the lost wallet seemed to have met before. ( 'met' is transitive ) (2) His name was familiar to me, so I tried hard to recall who he was. (3) Surprisingly, I figured out that he was one of my classmates in elemantary school.

  • I have underlined some problems: (1) After I checked up the data , I was surprised to know that the owner of the lost wallet seemed to have met before.
  • ( 'met' is transitive ) (2) His name was familiar to me, so I tried hard to recall who he was.
  • (3) Surprisingly, I figured out that he was one of my classmates in elemantary school.
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I have underlined some problems:

(1) After I checked up the data, I was surprised to know that the owner of the lost wallet seemed to have met before. ('met' is transitive)

(2) His name was familiar to me, so I tried hard to recall who he was.
(3) Surprisingly, I figured out that he was one of my classmates in elemantary s
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(1) After I checked out the name, I was surprised to recognize that the owner of the lost wallet seemed to have known before.

(3) Surprisingly, I figured out that he was one of my classmates in elementary school.
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(1) After I checked out the name, I was surprised to realize that the owner of the lost wallet seemed to have known before. ('know' is transitive here)

(3) Surprisingly, I figured out that he was one of my classmates in elementary school.
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(1) After I checked out the name, I was surprised to realize that the owner of the lost wallet seemed to have seen before.

Why "checked up the data" is unacceptable?
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(1) After I checked out the name, I was surprised to realize that I seem to have seen the owner of the lost wallet before.

Why "checked up the data" is unacceptable?-- 'Data' is scientific and is ludicrously out of place when referring to information in a wallet. 'Check up' is a lengthy process of examining referents. All the speaker did, presumably, is look in the w

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