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Chasteguy Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Want verification of this use of " instead"...!
Hello
i am new to the forum but have found it really helpful. well, the question me wanna pose to you is that:
can we make use of instead as follows
"He instead started to beat me.
He instead gulped down my glass of milk.
He was instead fined for impersonating a police officer.
He was instead killed.
He will instead make fun of you.
You will be instead made a laughing stock."
Please confirm the usage and please also clarify the meaning of this use... i will be extremely grateful to you.
Many thnx in advance
Rashid
Pakistan
i am new to the forum but have found it really helpful. well, the question me wanna pose to you is that:
can we make use of instead as follows
"He instead started to beat me.
He instead gulped down my glass of milk.
He was instead fined for impersonating a police officer.
He was instead killed.
He will instead make fun of you.
You will be instead made a laughing stock."
Please confirm the usage and please also clarify the meaning of this use... i will be extremely grateful to you.
Many thnx in advance
Rashid
Pakistan
Top answer
Place instead at the end of those and they'll be correct. He started to beat me instead. He was fined for impersonating a police officer instead.
- Place instead at the end of those and they'll be correct.
- He started to beat me instead.
- He was fined for impersonating a police officer instead.
- Or place instead and a comma at the beginning.
- Instead, he started to beat me.
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Place instead at the end of those and they'll be correct.
He started to beat me instead.
He was fined for impersonating a police officer instead.
Or place instead and a comma at the beginning.
Instead, he started to beat me.
Instead, he will make fun of you.
CJ
He started to beat me instead.
He was fined for impersonating a police officer instead.
Or place instead and a comma at the beginning.
Instead, he started to beat me.
Instead, he will make fun of you.
CJ
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OMG.....i read all those expressions in a local grammar book......how incorrectly they compose....hufff!
Thank you very much CJ for correcting me. i have many more things like that to be corrected by you, the native eglish speakers...!
plzzzz....clarify one more concept....
we use
you had better stay away.
what would be the past of had better...... i m
Thank you very much CJ for correcting me. i have many more things like that to be corrected by you, the native eglish speakers...!
plzzzz....clarify one more concept....
we use
you had better stay away.
what would be the past of had better...... i m
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had better is a fixed idiom. You can't use it in different tenses. It's always had better.
CJ
CJ
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