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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Use of "ago"

“I'll tell you about my experience two years ago. ”

Is this making sense?

It seems "two years ago" is qualifying "my experience," but I feel this is an error, because I mostly saw a phrase like "two years ago" qualifying verbs.

Is this not the case?
  

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Anonymous Is this making sense? Not really. Most people can work out the meaning, but it's not a good idea to phrase it like that.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Is this making sense?
  • Not really.
  • Most people can work out the meaning, but it's not a good idea to phrase it like that.
  • Try this: I'll tell you about an experience I had two years ago.
  • CJ
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AnonymousIs this making sense?
Not really. Most people can work out the meaning, but it's not a good idea to phrase it like that. Try this:

I'll tell you about an experience I had two years ago.

CJ
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Anonymous“I'll tell you about my experience two years ago. ”
I don't personally have a problem with this. For me, the difficulty would arise with something like "He told me about his experience in March", where it is ambiguous what "in March" refers to.
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So it's the tense in combination with the time expression, and not either one in itself, that can cause trouble.

CJ
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