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Yunqing Zhang Posted 7 years ago
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Have completed this fast?

If I put it like ‘’somebody have never completed the kind of task this fast‘’ , does it necessarily means that the person have completed the kind of task before but not this fast?
  

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" is awkward. We would say: Nobody has ever completed this kind of task this fast. It normally implies that people have completed it before, but not this fast

  • " is awkward.
  • We would say: Nobody has ever completed this kind of task this fast.
  • It normally implies that people have completed it before, but not this fast
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It should be "somebody has", but "somebody has never ..." is awkward. We would say:

Nobody has ever completed this kind of task this fast.

It normally implies that people have completed it before, but not this fast

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