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Mosja Posted 7 years ago
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Is this conversation about the writing competition natural?
A: You are in the number 1 in our school essay writing competition
B: You must be joking. I didn't hear my essay spoken on the auditorium.
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mosja A: You are in the number 1 in our school essay writing competition B: You must be joking. I didn't hear my essay spoken on the auditorium. There are some hidden assumptions here.
- mosja A: You are in the number 1 in our school essay writing competition B: You must be joking.
- I didn't hear my essay spoken on the auditorium.
- There are some hidden assumptions here.
- Are we, the readers, supposed to know that any essay that wins the first prize is read aloud in the auditorium?
- And that B has been listening to essays being read in the auditorium?
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mosjaA: You are in the number 1 in our school essay writing competition
B: You must be joking. I didn't hear my essay spoken on the auditorium.
There are some hidden assumptions here. Are we, the readers, supposed to know that any essay that wins the first prize is read aloud in the auditorium? And that B has been listening to e
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