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My Celine Posted 20 years ago
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Is this sentence correct?

The city is very new when I came here.
  

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I don't really get what you mean to express... Yet it doesn't sound right. "The city was very/quite new"?

— Pieanne

  • I don't really get what you mean to express...
  • Yet it doesn't sound right.
  • "The city was very/quite new"?
  • "The city looked very/quite new"?
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I don't really get what you mean to express... Yet it doesn't sound right.

"The city was very/quite new"? "The city looked very/quite new"?
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Maybe: "The city had only just been built, when I came here".

MrP
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