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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Using before or Earlier here

Hi please let me know which one is the correct one here.

1. I dont know this, you should have told me before.

or

2. I dont know this, you should have told me earlier.
  

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Hi Anonymous, Both sentences are fine. Don't has an apostrophe in it! Clodpole

— Clodpole

  • Hi Anonymous, Both sentences are fine.
  • Don't has an apostrophe in it!
  • Clodpole
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Hi Anonymous,

Both sentences are fine.

Don't has an apostrophe in it!

Clodpole
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AnonymousHi please let me know which one is the correct one here.

1. I dont know this, you should have told me before.
or
2. I dont know this, you should have told me earlier.
They are both examples of comma splices. I would write:

I didn't know that. You should have told me earlier.

before is OK, too.
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