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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
'to be to'
2nd question:
what is the difference among the following sentences with regard to meaning?
what does each sentence mean to you (?)? - are they correct anyway - special attention to the punctuation and
the use of the 'to be to' grammatical structure?
i cleaned the whole house - that was to have been done.
i cleaned the whole house - that was to be done.
i cleaned the whole house; it was to have been done.
i cleaned the whole house - it was to have been done.
i cleaned the whole house. it was to have been done.
i cleaned the whole house, it was to have been done.
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3rd question:
what are the differences among the following three things?
what is the difference among the following three things?
which sentence would you use? are they both correct?
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1st question: do you know the answer?
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thank you!
inchoate
what is the difference among the following sentences with regard to meaning?
what does each sentence mean to you (?)? - are they correct anyway - special attention to the punctuation and
the use of the 'to be to' grammatical structure?
i cleaned the whole house - that was to have been done.
i cleaned the whole house - that was to be done.
i cleaned the whole house; it was to have been done.
i cleaned the whole house - it was to have been done.
i cleaned the whole house. it was to have been done.
i cleaned the whole house, it was to have been done.
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3rd question:
what are the differences among the following three things?
what is the difference among the following three things?
which sentence would you use? are they both correct?
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1st question: do you know the answer?
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thank you!
inchoate
Top answer
Hi, 2nd question: All of these sound very odd. You need to say I cleaned the whole house. It had to be done.
- Hi, 2nd question: All of these sound very odd.
- You need to say I cleaned the whole house.
- It had to be done.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd question: what are the differences among the following three things?
- what is the difference among the following three things?
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4 Answers
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Hi,
2nd question:
All of these sound very odd. You need to say I cleaned the whole house. It had to be done.
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2nd question:
All of these sound very odd. You need to say I cleaned the whole house. It had to be done.
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i am sure i read 'which was to have been done' many times.
exemply gratia: quod erat faciendum means, which was to have been done.
thank you clive for your continued support for me.
should we bump into each other somewhere, i will buy you a beer.
exemply gratia: quod erat faciendum means, which was to have been done.
thank you clive for your continued support for me.
should we bump into each other somewhere, i will buy you a beer.
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'which was to have been done' is fine but not on its own:
which was to have been done by Mary...which was to have been done before tomorrow....etc
which was to have been done by Mary...which was to have been done before tomorrow....etc
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Hi again,
I didn't mean that 'which was to have been done' was wrong in general. My comment was about the way you used it in your examples.
Best wishes again, Clive
I didn't mean that 'which was to have been done' was wrong in general. My comment was about the way you used it in your examples.
Best wishes again, Clive
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