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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

If I had known the store was closed, I wouldn't have come.

1font00Which of the following sentences is more correct to use:02font02br
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01b001:02b00 01font00If I had known the store was closed, I wouldn't have come.02font02br
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01b002:02b00 01font00If I had known 01b00that02b00 the store was closed, I wouldn't have come.02font02br
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01font00Is 01b01i00closed02i02b00 being used as an adjective above?02font0-
  

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02font 02br 00They are both correct, but #1 is more concise. You can drop "that" when the clause after "that" is a complete sentence. )0-

— Starstuff

  • 02font 02br 00They are both correct, but #1 is more concise.
  • You can drop "that" when the clause after "that" is a complete sentence.
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1b001:02b00 01font00If I had known the store was closed, I wouldn't have come.02font02br
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01b002:02b00 01font00If I had known 01b00that02b00 the store was closed, I wouldn't have come.02font02br
00They are both correct,
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0 They are both completely correct, so it's not possible to say that one is more correct than the other.02br
00 It seems to me that when we're speaking we tend to leave out the 01i00that02i00 more often, and when we're writing we tend to include it more often, but both ways are used in both speaking and writing.02br
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