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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Seems like wrong sentence
The following passage is from the website as follows:
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&tocp=8
Given how frequently they vanish – by take-over or bankruptcy – this is hardly surprising. Coca-Cola may wish its customers were ‘serfs under feudal brandlords’, (in the words of one critic,) but look what happened to New Coke. Shell may have tried to dump an oil-storage device in the deep sea in 1995, but a whiff of consumer boycott and it changed its mind.
The underlined ‘boycott’ seems to be ‘boycotted’ to make the right sentence because this sentence is past in general.
Do you agree with me?
Thanks in advance.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&tocp=8
Given how frequently they vanish – by take-over or bankruptcy – this is hardly surprising. Coca-Cola may wish its customers were ‘serfs under feudal brandlords’, (in the words of one critic,) but look what happened to New Coke. Shell may have tried to dump an oil-storage device in the deep sea in 1995, but a whiff of consumer boycott and it changed its mind.
The underlined ‘boycott’ seems to be ‘boycotted’ to make the right sentence because this sentence is past in general.
Do you agree with me?
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
"Consumer boycott" reads as one noun to me, no tense conjugation.
- "Consumer boycott" reads as one noun to me, no tense conjugation.
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Thanks a lot for your immediate response, Vorpar.
I thought about that possibility of that being a noun, but two conjunctions (‘but’ and ‘and’) made me think there should be a verb.
Vorpar, in that case, do you think I can put ‘there was’ between ‘but’ and ‘a whiff of consumer’?
(I know I’m too fussy about in this case. But, being non-native, I want to check out every possibi
I thought about that possibility of that being a noun, but two conjunctions (‘but’ and ‘and’) made me think there should be a verb.
Vorpar, in that case, do you think I can put ‘there was’ between ‘but’ and ‘a whiff of consumer’?
(I know I’m too fussy about in this case. But, being non-native, I want to check out every possibi
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Stenka25Vorpar, in that case, do you think I can put ‘there was’ between ‘but’ and ‘a whiff of consumer’?(I know I’m too fussy about in this case. But, being non-native, I want to check out every possibility of the sentence.)Yes, or even "the company detected/noticed" in the same place.
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