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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
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Is 'as' OK here?
Jeff wakes up on the couch as his wife is vacuuming.
Is 'as' fine here? Is the sentence fine?
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anonymous Is 'as' fine here? Your sentence is not at all wrong, but it is unlikely in my East Coast US dialect. In my dialect, "as" is rarely used outside of comparisons.
- anonymous Is 'as' fine here?
- Your sentence is not at all wrong, but it is unlikely in my East Coast US dialect.
- In my dialect, "as" is rarely used outside of comparisons.
- Your sentence might illustrate why.
- Did Jeff wake up during the time his wife vacuuming?
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anonymousIs 'as' fine here?
Your sentence is not at all wrong, but it is unlikely in my East Coast US dialect. In my dialect, "as" is rarely used outside of comparisons. Your sentence might illustrate why. Did Jeff wake up during the time his wife vacuuming? Or did the writer omit the required comma, and he woke up because his wife was vacuuming? Also, in a
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