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Enex e Posted 3 years ago
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Is this sentence correct?

He called my friend on the phone yesterday, asking him if he was doing his job correctly.

  

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Enex e He called my friend on the phone yesterday, asking him if he was doing his job correctly. There are problems. Who was doing whose job?

  • Enex e He called my friend on the phone yesterday, asking him if he was doing his job correctly.
  • There are problems.
  • Who was doing whose job?
  • " The phone call is different from a letter because it happens all at once, and the reader senses something amiss.
  • "
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Enex eHe called my friend on the phone yesterday, asking him if he was doing his job correctly.

There are problems. Who was doing whose job? Also, "asking" doesn't work because such a structure goes with "wrote" like so: "He wrote to me asking if the job was finished." The phone call is different from a letter because it happens all at once, and the reader

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