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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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"The news just come through"
Here is a sentence from a local Olympiad on English language I've been struggling with:
The customers at the crowded pub were ecstatic at the news ________ through of Poland's qualification for Euro 2008.
A/ had just come B/ just came C/ came just D/ just come
The correct answer is D, which I chose intuitively. However I don't seem to be able to give any logical reasoning why this answer should be chosen. What I've thought of is that 'come' might have been used in passive, as in "the news just sent in"; but then, it's an intransitive verb...
The customers at the crowded pub were ecstatic at the news ________ through of Poland's qualification for Euro 2008.
A/ had just come B/ just came C/ came just D/ just come
The correct answer is D, which I chose intuitively. However I don't seem to be able to give any logical reasoning why this answer should be chosen. What I've thought of is that 'come' might have been used in passive, as in "the news just sent in"; but then, it's an intransitive verb...
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Hi, Here is a sentence from a local Olympiad on English language I've been struggling with: The customers at the crowded pub were ecstatic at the news __ through of Poland's qualification for Euro 2008. A/ had just come B/ just came C/ came just D/ just come The correct answer is D, which I chose intuitively. However I don't seem to be able to give any logical reasoning why this answer should be chosen.
- Hi, Here is a sentence from a local Olympiad on English language I've been struggling with: The customers at the crowded pub were ecstatic at the news __ through of Poland's qualification for Euro 2008.
- A/ had just come B/ just came C/ came just D/ just come The correct answer is D, which I chose intuitively.
- However I don't seem to be able to give any logical reasoning why this answer should be chosen.
- What I've thought of is that 'come' might have been used in passive, as in "the news just sent in" ; but then, it's an intransitive verb...
- I see it as a shortened form of 'the news ( that had ) just come through' .
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Hi,
Here is a sentence from a local Olympiad on English language I've been struggling with:
The customers at the crowded pub were ecstatic at the news __ through of Poland's qualification for Euro 2008.
A/ had just come B/ just came C/ came just D/ just come
The correct answer is D, which I chose intuitively. However I don't seem to be able to give any logica
Here is a sentence from a local Olympiad on English language I've been struggling with:
The customers at the crowded pub were ecstatic at the news __ through of Poland's qualification for Euro 2008.
A/ had just come B/ just came C/ came just D/ just come
The correct answer is D, which I chose intuitively. However I don't seem to be able to give any logica
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