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Navitasan Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
One more time
Which are correct:
1-I had gone there several times on foot. After what happened in June, I thought I would never go there again, but last month I went there one more time on my bicycle.
2-I had gone there several times on foot. After what happened in June, I thought I would never go there again, but last month I went there one more time, on my bicycle.
3-I had gone there several times on foot. After what happened in June, I thought I would never go there again, but last month I went there one more time, this time on my bicycle.
Gratefully,
Navi.
1-I had gone there several times on foot. After what happened in June, I thought I would never go there again, but last month I went there one more time on my bicycle.
2-I had gone there several times on foot. After what happened in June, I thought I would never go there again, but last month I went there one more time, on my bicycle.
3-I had gone there several times on foot. After what happened in June, I thought I would never go there again, but last month I went there one more time, this time on my bicycle.
Gratefully,
Navi.
Top answer
They are all good, but I think the comma makes it better. It relieves the slight ambiguity of the first one, which seems to say that you went there before on your bicycle, which may be true but is irrelevant. The third one is just a more emphatic form of the second one.
- They are all good, but I think the comma makes it better.
- It relieves the slight ambiguity of the first one, which seems to say that you went there before on your bicycle, which may be true but is irrelevant.
- The third one is just a more emphatic form of the second one.
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They are all good, but I think the comma makes it better. It relieves the slight ambiguity of the first one, which seems to say that you went there before on your bicycle, which may be true but is irrelevant. The third one is just a more emphatic form of the second one.
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Thank you very much Enoon.
Yes, the comma in the first one seemed problematic to me too.
The thing is that I can't tell whether
I went there one more time on my bike.
could be used if I had never used my bike to go there before and had gone by other means.
Gratefully,
Navi.
Yes, the comma in the first one seemed problematic to me too.
The thing is that I can't tell whether
I went there one more time on my bike.
could be used if I had never used my bike to go there before and had gone by other means.
Gratefully,
Navi.
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Yes, but as I said, it is slightly ambiguous. However brief the reader's confusion may be, it is a Bad Thing.
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