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Sysrq Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
They just beaten me senseless
Hello,
www.YouTube.com/watch?v=pkPgYbdQ1kQ
0:26 - 0:35
If I understood correctly, then Jesus said the following sentence:
So there I was, they just beaten me senseless, stuck thorns in my head, nailed me to a piece of wood, [stopfen?] a sponge full of vinegar in my mouth and killed me.
But this can't be correct. In my opinion the sentence should be:
...they have just beaten me senseless...
So what is going wrong here? Is it common that a native speaker doesn't say 'have', because the context (word 'beaten') makes it clear there must be a 'have'? Or did I just discover a new tense?
www.YouTube.com/watch?v=pkPgYbdQ1kQ
0:26 - 0:35
If I understood correctly, then Jesus said the following sentence:
So there I was, they just beaten me senseless, stuck thorns in my head, nailed me to a piece of wood, [stopfen?] a sponge full of vinegar in my mouth and killed me.
But this can't be correct. In my opinion the sentence should be:
...they have just beaten me senseless...
So what is going wrong here? Is it common that a native speaker doesn't say 'have', because the context (word 'beaten') makes it clear there must be a 'have'? Or did I just discover a new tense?
Top answer
] a sponge full of vinegar in my mouth and killed me. No, he says . .
- ] a sponge full of vinegar in my mouth and killed me.
- No, he says .
- .
- they'd just beaten me senseless .
- .
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Hi,
If I understood correctly, then Jesus said the following sentence:
So there I was, they just beaten me senseless, stuck thorns in my head, nailed me to a piece of wood, [stopfen?] a sponge full of vinegar in my mouth and killed me.
No, he says . . . they'd just beaten me senseless . . .
The 'd can be hard for non-native speake
If I understood correctly, then Jesus said the following sentence:
So there I was, they just beaten me senseless, stuck thorns in my head, nailed me to a piece of wood, [stopfen?] a sponge full of vinegar in my mouth and killed me.
No, he says . . . they'd just beaten me senseless . . .
The 'd can be hard for non-native speake
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He says "they'd just beaten me senseless ... shoved a sponge full of vinegar... "
("they'd"= "they had")
The "'d" is not very distinct, but even if we can't hear it too well we know it must be there because the sentence would be ungrammatical without it.
("they'd"= "they had")
The "'d" is not very distinct, but even if we can't hear it too well we know it must be there because the sentence would be ungrammatical without it.
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Clive is correct with they'd (they had), but I wanted to add another note.
The word you cannot figure out is "shoved."
Edit: Ah, nevermind. Mr Wordy has already addressed it!
The word you cannot figure out is "shoved."
Edit: Ah, nevermind. Mr Wordy has already addressed it!
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