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Tiểu Cầm Posted 13 years ago
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Q: I supposed, as___we all, that the meeting would be cancelled
A.did
B.equally
C.would
D.just
I choose D, but the correction is A. I don't understand. Please explain it to me.Thanks
  

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just I choose D, but the correction is A. I don't understand. Please explain it to me A simpler form of the sentence is this.

  • just I choose D, but the correction is A.
  • I don't understand.
  • Please explain it to me A simpler form of the sentence is this.
  • I supposed, as we all did , that the meeting would be cancelled.
  • The inversion of the underlined part adds style.
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Q: I supposed, as___we all, that the meeting would be cancelled
A.did
B.equally
C.would
D.just
I choose D, but the correction is A. I don't understand. Please explain it to me

A simpler form of the sentence is this.
I supposed, as we all did, that the meeting would be cancelled.
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Here, did replaces supposed. "I supposed, as we all supposed (did) [...]". Because the action (to suppose) has already been previously indicated, there is no need to repeat it. You can simply use instead the auxiliary verb "to do".

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