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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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When I was a child, my mother used to tell me tales before I was going to sleep?
Did your mother used to tell you tales before you was going to sleep when you was a child?
Is the interrogative sentence all right?
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anonymous When I was a child, my mother used to tell me tales before I went to sleep? 'Was going' does not sound natural here. anonymous Did your mother use to tell you tales before you went to sleep when you were a child?
- anonymous When I was a child, my mother used to tell me tales before I went to sleep?
- 'Was going' does not sound natural here.
- anonymous Did your mother use to tell you tales before you went to sleep when you were a child?
- Correct as shown above.
- And, I feel stories would sound better than tales .
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anonymousWhen I was a child, my mother used to tell me tales before I went to sleep?
'Was going' does not sound natural here.
anonymousDid your mother use to tell you tales before you went to sleep when you
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Thank you.
And "fairy tales" would sound better than "stories"?
"When I was a child, my mother used to tell me fairy tales before I went to sleep."
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