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Eemanueil TAN Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Double past tense

I help help with this sentence:-

I am writing following the delivery of an item that I purchased at your online store on 02/06/2017 which appears(?) [or should it be appear?] to have arrived faulty.

  

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It's better to split that long sentence into two. But note that 'it appears ' suggests you are uncertain about what happened. Say it this way.

— Clive

  • It's better to split that long sentence into two.
  • But note that 'it appears ' suggests you are uncertain about what happened.
  • Say it this way.
  • I am writing following the delivery of an item that I purchased at your online store on 02/06/2017, It appears to have arrived faulty.
  • Clive
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It's better to split that long sentence into two.

But note that 'it appears' suggests you are uncertain about what happened.

Say it this way.

I am writing following the delivery of an item that I purchased at your online store on 02/06/2017, It appears to have arrived faulty.

Clive

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