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Peaceblinkfriend Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

"Did you buy that lunch box downstairs just then?"

"Did you buy that lunch box downstairs just then?"

Does this sound natural? And how would you express it?

Thanks

PBF
  

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Tell us in other words what you are trying to say and we'll tell you if it's the way to express it. Referring to a very recently completely action: Did you buy [whatever] just now? Referring to an event in the past: You'd bought [whatever] just then?

— BarbaraPA

  • Tell us in other words what you are trying to say and we'll tell you if it's the way to express it.
  • Referring to a very recently completely action: Did you buy [whatever] just now?
  • Referring to an event in the past: You'd bought [whatever] just then?
  • Just before the bus crashed through the window?
  • You're lucky you weren't five minutes later in making your purchase!
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Tell us in other words what you are trying to say and we'll tell you if it's the way to express it.

Referring to a very recently completely action: Did you buy [whatever] just now?

Referring to an event in the past: You'd bought [whatever] just then? Just before the bus crashed through the window? You're lucky you weren't five minutes later in making your purchase!
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Thank you for your reply Grammar Geek.

This is the scenario. A friend of mine and I am in a room on the 10th floor of a building. We are reading on our own. He leaves the room and comes back 10 minutes later with a lunch box. And this is when I ask him whether he had just bought the lunch box from the food court downstairs. I wanted to include 'downstairs' in the question. Wonder if tha
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