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Pritesh prit Posted 11 years ago
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However, faces of either citizens of AAA, unlike people of defeated countries, did not seem very sad.
Is the use of either in this sentence correct? I thought the sentence is much better like this -
However, faces of citizens of AAA, unlike people of defeated countries, did not seem very sad.
  

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You are right that the use of "either" here is wrong. Your effort is better. This would be correct:

"However, the faces of the citizens of AAA, unlike those of peoples of defeated countries, did not seem very sad."

I am not sure but you may actually have meant something like this:

"However, the faces of the citizens of AAA did not seem very sad, and so were quite unlik
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"However, the faces of the citizens of AAA did not seem very sad, and so were quite unlike the faces one would have expected to see among peoples of defeated countries."
Michael Chambers Teaching EnglishI should have written "to have seen"
No, 'would expect (normally) to have seen (in the past)' or 'would have expected (in the past) to see (at the same past time
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Thanks. Right first time and then I overthought it.
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