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Alc24 Posted 17 years ago
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Could you say :

1 She said something like what I said earlier.

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I think you are not supposed to use the verb twice in the same sentence You could say She said as i did earlier.

  • I think you are not supposed to use the verb twice in the same sentence You could say She said as i did earlier.
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I think you are not supposed to use the verb twice in the same sentence
You could say
She said as i did earlier.
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This sentence is fine from my perspective, but I don't know about formally.
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1 She said something like what I said earlier.

It is fine. A more formal expression is:

She said something similar to what I had said earlier.

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