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Wangqh2696122 Posted 13 years ago
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In the following sentence (from a test paper), I feel C is correct, but the answer is B. What do you think?
During the period of recent terriost activities, people _______not to touch any an attended bag.
A. had always been warned
B. were always being warned
C. have always been warned
  

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wangqh2696122 During the period of recent terriost activities, people _______not to touch any an attended bag. I personally don't think this is a well formed sentence with respect to the answer choices. The issue for me is this : During the period of recent ....

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  • wangqh2696122 During the period of recent terriost activities, people _______not to touch any an attended bag.
  • I personally don't think this is a well formed sentence with respect to the answer choices.
  • The issue for me is this : During the period of recent ....
  • seemed to imply continuing and future activities.
  • But the warnings were issued after the initial attacks so "had been warned " would have been my answer.
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wangqh2696122During the period of recent terriost activities, people _______not to touch any an attended bag.
I personally don't think this is a well formed sentence with respect to the answer choices. The issue for me is this:
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wangqh2696122I feel C is correct, but the answer is B. What do you think?
There's no reason for the past perfect, so A won't work. As for the other two, I see no objection to using either one.

CJ
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