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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Hello!
Could you check the following sentences?

1. For fear of being assaulted, the elderly lady would carry an electric paralyser.
2. If the man hadn't driven so fast, he would have menaged to brake in time.
3. If she hadn't spoken so/too fast, I would have understood her.
4. If he hadn't been drunk, he could have entered the restaurant.
5. I have never met a nicer girl.
6. No matter how much time he spent learning/how much he learnt, he never got good marks at school.
7. We have taken warm clothes lest the weather gets/may get worse.
8. We took warm clothes lest the weather got worse/might get worse/ would get worse.

Thank you very much!
Annie
  

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2. If the man hadn't been driving so fast, he would have managed to brake in time. 6.

  • 2.
  • If the man hadn't been driving so fast, he would have managed to brake in time.
  • 6.
  • No matter how much time he spent studying/how much he studied , he never got good marks at school.
  • 7.
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2. If the man hadn't been driving so fast, he would have managed to brake in time.

6. No matter how much time he spent studying/how much he studied, he never got good marks at school.
7. We have taken warm clothes in case the weather gets worse.
8. We took warm clothes in case the weather got worse.

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