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Liveinjapan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

So ... that

The situation is so critical that it would occur once every hundred years.

Is my sentence correct?

Thanks.
  

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Not bad, but I'd prefer ... is so critical that it occurs only once in a hundred years. ) CJ

  • Not bad, but I'd prefer ...
  • is so critical that it occurs only once in a hundred years.
  • ) CJ
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Not bad, but I'd prefer

... is so critical that it occurs only once in a hundred years.

(The would sticks out as strange in the context of a present tense -- is.)

CJ
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Thanks, CJ.
Understand.

After posting it, I checked BBC and NYT about this big news (TOYOTA losing money and the president said this statement), and their lines are partially the same as yours, CJ.

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