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BW2/3 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
saw/ have seen
It was like a miracle that you never saw before.
It was like a miracle that you have never seen before.
Are they OK?
Thank you
It was like a miracle that you have never seen before.
Are they OK?
Thank you
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Ignoring the quirky semantics, they are grammatically OK. I like the second one better. before is unnecessary, but not wrong.
- Ignoring the quirky semantics, they are grammatically OK.
- I like the second one better.
- before is unnecessary, but not wrong.
- If it is like something I have never seen, how would I know what it is like at all?
- Normally, when we say that something is like another thing, we intend to give some information to the listener by which he will know the sort of thing we are talking about, for example, It is like a table .
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Ignoring the quirky semantics, they are grammatically OK. I like the second one better. before is unnecessary, but not wrong.
If it is like something I have never seen, how would I know what it is like at all?
Normally, when we say that something is like another thing, we intend to give some information to the listener by which he will know the sort of thing we are tal
If it is like something I have never seen, how would I know what it is like at all?
Normally, when we say that something is like another thing, we intend to give some information to the listener by which he will know the sort of thing we are tal
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is also possible:
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She sort of crossed her arms as she responded. It was a look you had
never seen before, because in the two months you had dated her, she
had never gotten
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