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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
past and past perfect tense confusion
" How disappointed I am when I saw you that you weren't there. " - Is this sentence grammatically right ?
Should the right version be " How disappointed was I when I had seen you not there . " ?
Should the auxiliary verb come before the subject when constructing an exclamatory sentence ?
Should the right version be " How disappointed was I when I had seen you not there . " ?
Should the auxiliary verb come before the subject when constructing an exclamatory sentence ?
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Hello,
I think the disappointment and the realization (that the person wasn't there) occured at the same time, so they should be in the same tense: "How disappointed was I when I saw you were not there!"
I think the disappointment and the realization (that the person wasn't there) occured at the same time, so they should be in the same tense: "How disappointed was I when I saw you were not there!"
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"How disappointed was I when I saw you were not there!" seems more like a question to me, though it lacks a question mark at the end.
I'd probably write, "How disappointed I was when I saw you were not there!"
I'd probably write, "How disappointed I was when I saw you were not there!"
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