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Vincent Teo Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Came / come back
Can I say,
She went out to buy some things. When she came back / came home / came back home, she saw a landslide and her house was destroyed.
She went out to buy some things. When she came back / came home / came back home, she saw a landslide and her house was destroyed.
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All of the options are fine. If the landslide happened while she was away, you would say: She went out to buy some things. When she came back home, she saw that her house had been destroyed by a landslide.
- All of the options are fine.
- If the landslide happened while she was away, you would say: She went out to buy some things.
- When she came back home, she saw that her house had been destroyed by a landslide.
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All of the options are fine.
If the landslide happened while she was away, you would say:
She went out to buy some things. When she came back home, she saw that her house had been destroyed by a landslide.
If the landslide happened while she was away, you would say:
She went out to buy some things. When she came back home, she saw that her house had been destroyed by a landslide.
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