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Rommel Posted 10 years ago
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Is this sentence using ‘had been found sitting’ acceptable?
Is this sentence using ‘had been found sitting’ acceptable?
Cathy said her son had been found sitting in a street corner somewhere in Hanoi, so she took him home.
It was not Cathy but someone else who had found her son. Should I rewrite the sentence instead as follows?
Cathy said someone else had found her son sitting in a street corner somewhere in Hanoi, so she took him home.
Cathy said her son had been found sitting in a street corner somewhere in Hanoi, so she took him home.
It was not Cathy but someone else who had found her son. Should I rewrite the sentence instead as follows?
Cathy said someone else had found her son sitting in a street corner somewhere in Hanoi, so she took him home.
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Both versions are fine, except that I would change " in a street corner" to " on a street corner" and remove the redundant "else" in the second.
- Both versions are fine, except that I would change " in a street corner" to " on a street corner" and remove the redundant "else" in the second.
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Both versions are fine, except that I would change "in a street corner" to "on a street corner" and remove the redundant "else" in the second.
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