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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

last Monday in the morning

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00Last Monday in the morning, it was raining continuously for three days. 0-
  

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02br 02br 00This seems an unlikely sentence. The contrasting scale puts you off balance. If it's been raining for three days, it doesn't much matter if it's morning or afternoon.

  • 02br 02br 00This seems an unlikely sentence.
  • The contrasting scale puts you off balance.
  • If it's been raining for three days, it doesn't much matter if it's morning or afternoon.
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0Last Monday in the morning, it 01i01b00had been raining02b02i00 continuously for three days.02br
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00This seems an unlikely sentence. The contrasting scale puts you off balance. If it's been raining for three days, it doesn't much matter if it's morning or afternoon. If you were going to use this in a paragraph, you'd probably begi
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0Is it acceptable to say "Last Monday in the morning"?Shouldn't it be Last Monday morning?0-
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0I'd say it's acceptable, with an optional comma, especially if you wish to emphasize the time of day.0-
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0 Yeah, it bet it's right to say that, most especially if you mean that the action happened at a certain time of the day, which, in this case, is "in the morning" and not in the afternoon or in the evening. I hope this has shed some light. 0-
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0Thanks, Avangi and MJ.0-
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0"Last Monday, in the morning," is possible, but "Last Monday morning" would be more natural in most situations.0-
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01cite10Vincent Teo12cite10Last Monday in the morning, it was raining continuously for three days.12blockquote
10 "01i00Last monday morning02i00" and "01i00it was raining continuously for three days02i00" are two non-related timelines. What's the connection between the two
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1u00That was my point.02u00 They would need to be developed separately and then connected, or something like that. Unfortunately, this is a game we have to play, since we deal with isolated single sentences most of the time. We applaud the "most common" and reject the others.02br
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0 Last week the weather was good. It only rained twice. Once for three days and once for four days.02br
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0On second thought, why didn't you say "the other" in place of the second once?0-

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