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Moon7296 Posted 8 years ago
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1. What Dodge did was something that had never been tried before.
2. What Dodge did had never been tried before.

Q1) Does number #2 sound okay?


3. More labor was needed in the cotton fields in the America. (the original context is More labor was needed in the cotton fields in the American South.)

Q2) Regarding #3, is "the" accpeatable? I was wondering if I need to deduct (school exam points) because of "the" in front of "American.

  

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moon7296 Q1) Does number #2 sound okay? Yes. By the way, "number #2" is wrong since the symbol # itself expresses the meaning 'number'.

  • moon7296 Q1) Does number #2 sound okay?
  • Yes.
  • By the way, "number #2" is wrong since the symbol # itself expresses the meaning 'number'.
  • moon7296 Q2) Regarding #3, is "the" accpeatable?
  • I was wondering if I need to deduct (school exam points) because of "the" in front of "American.
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moon7296Q1) Does number #2 sound okay?

Yes.

By the way, "number #2" is wrong since the symbol # itself expresses the meaning 'number'.

moon7296Q2) Regarding #3, is "the" accpeatable? I was wondering if I need to deduct (school exam points) because of "the" in front of "American.

"in the America" is wrong; "in

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