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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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If you ever get lost in the jungle of Nepal, you would find a village; you would find a place to sleep and I wouldn't be surprised. Is this grammatically correct?
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The minimum correction would be to change "get" to "got". "I wouldn't be surprised" seems a bit redundant to me, since the "you would" phrasing already expresses the speaker's belief or assertion that this is what would happen. It is not definitely wrong though.
- The minimum correction would be to change "get" to "got".
- "I wouldn't be surprised" seems a bit redundant to me, since the "you would" phrasing already expresses the speaker's belief or assertion that this is what would happen.
- It is not definitely wrong though.
- It may work better if read as meaning "...
- and I wouldn't even be surprised if you found a place to sleep".
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The minimum correction would be to change "get" to "got".
"I wouldn't be surprised" seems a bit redundant to me, since the "you would" phrasing already expresses the speaker's belief or assertion that this is what would happen. It is not definitely wrong though. It may work better if read as meaning "... and I wouldn't even be surprised if you found a place to sleep".
"I wouldn't be surprised" seems a bit redundant to me, since the "you would" phrasing already expresses the speaker's belief or assertion that this is what would happen. It is not definitely wrong though. It may work better if read as meaning "... and I wouldn't even be surprised if you found a place to sleep".
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GPYThe minimum correction would be to change "get" to "got"."I wouldn't be surprised" seems a bit redundant to me, since the "you would" phrasing already expresses the speaker's belief or assertion that this is what would happen. It is not definitely wrong though.Thank you so much. I saw this sentence in a video where 'get' was used instead of 'got'. Does it
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AnonymousThank you so much. I saw this sentence in a video where 'get' was used instead of 'got'. Does it sound native with using get?It is the sort of small imperfection that happens. I would not assume just from this that the speaker was not a native speaker of English.
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