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TeacherJapan Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence correct?

Looking back over(=on) your life, you probably have had an experience of learning important things in life when things weren't going as planned, not when everything was going well.
  

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I believe that most people would accept it as correct. " because the experience does not happen when you look back over your life. My feeling is also that "not when everything was going well" does not have absolutely the ideal relationship with what has gone before.

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  • I believe that most people would accept it as correct.
  • " because the experience does not happen when you look back over your life.
  • My feeling is also that "not when everything was going well" does not have absolutely the ideal relationship with what has gone before.
  • The "things ...
  • " repetition is slightly noticeable.
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I believe that most people would accept it as correct.

My feeling is that there is a faint "dangliness" about "Looking back over your life, ..." because the experience does not happen when you look back over your life.

My feeling is also that "not when everyth

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