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Makiasan Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

mistake the time for A rather than B

The taxi company mistook the time for pick-up for PM rather than AM.

Does this sentence mean that the taxi should have picked up in the morning but they did in the afternoon?
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Makiasan Does this sentence mean that the taxi should have picked up in the morning but they did in the afternoon? Yes. It would have been a little clearer this way: The taxi company mistook the pick-up time as PM rather than AM.

  • Makiasan Does this sentence mean that the taxi should have picked up in the morning but they did in the afternoon?
  • Yes.
  • It would have been a little clearer this way: The taxi company mistook the pick-up time as PM rather than AM.
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MakiasanDoes this sentence mean that the taxi should have picked up in the morning but they did in the afternoon?
Yes. It would have been a little clearer this way:

The taxi company mistook the pick-up time as PM rather than AM.
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Thank you very much, Mister Micawber!
Maki

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