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Rex Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

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01. What did you get at the gym?02br
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002. Why did you go to the gym?02br
00I have surprisingly learnt even the first sentence is fine. Would you agree?02br
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00I am training 3 times a week at a gym. A person who trains with me told me that the first sentence is correct.02br
00Would you say ' why did you get at the shop', 'why did you get at the dentist' , etc..?0-
  

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0 1. Correct, but what is the meaning that you want to express? 02br 00 or02br 00 Which advantages (including to your heath) did you get there?

— Marius Hancu

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  • Correct, but what is the meaning that you want to express?
  • 02br 00 or02br 00 Which advantages (including to your heath) did you get there?
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0 1. Correct, but what is the meaning that you want to express? 02br
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00 It could mean: 02br
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01i00 Which object did you obtain at the gym?02br
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00 Which advantages (including to your heath) did you get there? 02i02br
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00 2. Correct. 02br
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0 Thanks Marius02br
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00Have I written the following sentence correctly?02br
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00I have surprisingly learnt even the first sentence is fine.02br
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00Should it be 'Surprisingly I have learnt even the first sentence is fine'?0-
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0 I'd say "much to my surprise" 0-
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0I just want to point out, in case there is any confusion, that you were comparing two different structures in your original question.02br
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001. What did you get at the gym? - ok, as explained previously, but are you clear that it does not have the same meaning as 'why did you go...'02br
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00Would you say ' why did you get at the shop', 'why did you
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0 Thanks everybody for the replies.02br
00Pienne, you wrote the following:02br
00 I'd say "much to my surprise"02br
00I would agree with you. 02br
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01font00But my question is on my original sentence. Where do you place the word 'surprisingly' in that sentence?02font0-
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0 I urge someone to look at this question. Where would you place the adverb surprisingly in the following sentence?02br
00Surprisingly I have learnt OR I have surprisingly learnt02br
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00I have surprisingly learnt even the first sentence is fine. 0-
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0 I'd put "surprisingly" in the first place, but with a comma. Then it would mean "in a surprising manner". 0-
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0 01i00I have surprisingly learnt02i00is not going to work. 05002br
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00 You need 01i00Surprisingly, ...02i00 to mean 01i00It is surprising that ...02i02br
00 But I don't think you mean that it was surprising that you learned it. I think you mean that what you learned was surprising: 01
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