Things/stuff
Hi, which one is the better choice in this example?
"I didn't know she had moved in with you?"
"She hasn't"
"Then why have you let her bring things/stuff to your apartment?"
And is the dialogue overall sounding natural?
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" should have a question mark. Grammatically it is not a question, but it may be intoned as one. "She hasn't" is missing its full stop.
- " should have a question mark.
- Grammatically it is not a question, but it may be intoned as one.
- "She hasn't" is missing its full stop.
- In conversation the contraction "she'd" would often be used instead of "she had", but "she had" is of course not wrong.
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"things" and "stuff" are both OK, but in this context it would be more usual to say:
"Then why have you let her bring her things/stuff to your apartment?"
Apart from this, the dialogue is overall natural, but check whether "I didn't know she had moved in with you?" should have a question mark. Grammatically it is not a question, but it may be intoned as one. "She hasn't" is
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