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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Help please

Can someone please check to see if these sentences are right?

1. Whenever I see my mom cries, I would get really depress.
2. I read the book yesterday and it talked about pollution in chapter 7. <---its talked and not talks right? since I used was
  

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1. -- Or 'saw' and ' got/would get' 2. I read the book yesterday and it talked/talks about pollution in chapter 7.

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  • -- Or 'saw' and ' got/would get' 2.
  • I read the book yesterday and it talked/talks about pollution in chapter 7.
  • - - Since the book still exists, you can use either verb form.
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1. Whenever I see my mom crying, I get really depressed.-- Or 'saw' and ' got/would get'
2. I read the book yesterday and it talked/talks about pollution in chapter 7. -- Since the book still exists, you can use either verb form.
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1. Whenever I see my mom cries, I would get really depressd.

2. I read the book yesterday and it told about pollution in chapter 7.
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Sorry, moli, but in #1 you have not fixed the problems, but just created a new one by misspelling 'depressed'. In #2, there is no reason to change 'talk' to 'tell'.
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