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Lcchang Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

TOEIC Error Recognition VIII

I sent those documents that we recieved the other day to our legal department becasue I think there have been errors in them.

I am not sure where the error in this sentence is.

have been => were?

Sometimes I was confused about when to use think or thought. In this case, is he thinking right now or did he think then? Please advise.

LC
  

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< Sometimes I was confused about when to use think or thought . In this case, is he thinking right now or did he think then? > He thought (then) that there were errors and that prompted him to send the docs to the legal dept.

— Milky

  • < Sometimes I was confused about when to use think or thought .
  • In this case, is he thinking right now or did he think then?
  • > He thought (then) that there were errors and that prompted him to send the docs to the legal dept.
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<Sometimes I was confused about when to use think or thought. In this case, is he thinking right now or did he think then? Please advise.>

He thought (then) that there were errors and that prompted him to send the docs to the legal dept.
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So I will change it to:





I sent those documents that we recieved the other day to our legal department becasue I thought there were errors in them.

Please advise.

LC
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I sent those documents that we received the other day to our legal department because I thought there were errors in them.



Yes, this is correct.

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Dear all,

Let me repeat the question again.

I sent those documents that we recieved the other day to our legal department becasue I think there have been errors in them.

If I am only allowed to make one change here, wh
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If you can only make ONE change, then your first instinct is right - there were errors. You can say I thought there were, or I think there are, or I think there were, but the "have been" is just wrong regardless of the think/thought.
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Barbara,

Please correct me if I am wrong.

"I think" means I think now.

"I thought" means I thought in the past.

Is it possible to to use I thought to mean that I think now?

LC
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Yes.

You could go either way with "thought" about whether you do think it now.

When I saw them, I thought there were errors. I've had a chacne to review them more carefully, and now I think they are okay.

When I saw them, I thought there were errors, so I gave them to legal. And now that I've reviewed them, I'm more convinced of that than ever.

Using "thought"
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