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Olive bee Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Infinitive Constructions

Can "appear to be" be translated as an equivalent of "to turn out" in the following sentence:

The results appeared to be good ??? (=The results turned out to be good) ???

  

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No. appeared to be is equivalent to seemed to be .

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  • appeared to be is equivalent to seemed to be .
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No. appeared to be is equivalent to seemed to be.

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