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EmilK Posted 10 years ago
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Present Tenses Sentence

Hello. I have a qustion about this sentence: He has been solving a crossword puzzle for half an hour and he says he has had about to finish it as he have been thinking over the last word. Is it correct? Thanks in advance!
  

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It is not quite correct. These seem to be the minimum grammatical corrections: He has been solving a crossword puzzle for half an hour , and he says he is about to finish it as he has been thinking over the last word. However, "as" does not seem to express the relationship between the last two clauses very well.

  • It is not quite correct.
  • These seem to be the minimum grammatical corrections: He has been solving a crossword puzzle for half an hour , and he says he is about to finish it as he has been thinking over the last word.
  • However, "as" does not seem to express the relationship between the last two clauses very well.
  • "he has been thinking over the last word" is not a very good reason or explanation for "he is about to finish it".
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It is not quite correct. These seem to be the minimum grammatical corrections:

He has been solving a crossword puzzle for half an hour, and he says he is about to finish it as he has been thinking over the last word.

However, "as" does not seem to express the relationship between the last two clauses very well. "he has been thinking over the last word

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