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Witty zany 211 Posted 6 years ago
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Doesn’t it sound unnatural?

Her best known work was the renaissance-style, 256-room Lafayette Hotel. Opened in 1904, the Lafayette was at the time considered one of the fifteen finest hotels in the country. Louise Blanchard died in 1923 at the age 57.


If ‘Opened’ changes to ‘Opening’, is it alright grammatically? And does it sound natural?

  

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witty zany 211 And does it sound natural? No. The past participle is better because the time frame is in the past.

  • witty zany 211 And does it sound natural?
  • No.
  • The past participle is better because the time frame is in the past.
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witty zany 211And does it sound natural?

No. The past participle is better because the time frame is in the past.

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