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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Natural sentence

Is the following sentence natural?

If I didn't heard it wrong, she was once married.
If I didn't see it wrong, the color is a bit grey.

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If I didn't hear it wrong, she was once married. If I didn't see it wrong, the color is a bit grey . The first is possible; the second seems unlikely.

— Mister Micawber

  • If I didn't hear it wrong, she was once married.
  • If I didn't see it wrong, the color is a bit grey .
  • The first is possible; the second seems unlikely.
  • I am speaking of semantics.
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If I didn't hear it wrong, she was once married.
If I didn't see it wrong, the color is a bit grey.

The first is possible; the second seems unlikely. I am speaking of semantics.
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So you're saying that was is more common even though is possible,

If I didn't see it wrong, the color was a bit grey

I was just guessing what semantics mean
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AnonymousIf I didn't see it wrong, the color was a bit grey
That is indeed a better sentence, but by semantics I mean the information content. We don't usually see colors wrong; that's what I found odd.
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Maybe you mean something like this:

If I wasn't wrong, the color was a bit grey.
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