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Wangqh2696122 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Pls help me correct the sentence

While we were getting off the train, it was an announcement that the boat had not arrived in yet from Ireland. There was a delay.
  

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While we were getting off the train, there was an announcement that the boat had not arrived yet from Ireland. There was a delay. CJ

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  • While we were getting off the train, there was an announcement that the boat had not arrived yet from Ireland.
  • There was a delay.
  • CJ
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While we were getting off the train, there was an announcement that the boat had not arrived yet from Ireland. There was a delay.

CJ
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wangqh2696122While we were getting off the train,
I think I would use "when" instead of while in this context.
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While we were getting off the train, there was an announcement that the boat had not arrived yet from Ireland. There had been a delay.
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Is "was" correctly used in the original sentence? Do you think we should change "was" into "had been" as in the following sentence?

While we were getting off the train, there was an announcement that the boat had not arrived yet from Ireland. There had been a delay.
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wangqh2696122Do you think we should change "was" into "had been" as in the following sentence?
It's not necessary, but you can do that if you wish. It depends what you want to say.

The boat had not arrived yet from Ireland. There was a delay.

This suggests that the failure of the boat to arrive caused the speaker to be delayed. Or,
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I think it will be better that it was delay rather than There was a delay.

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it should be 'there' because the boat is coming,so means ,there's something happened why it was delayed.
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