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Mnrz57 Posted 14 years ago
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way back when
Hi
I have a question. Imagine you as a native speaker hear this sentence" "I was student way back when"
What would you percieve?
Does that mean: the speaker was a student a long time ago so he/she is no longer a studying
or it means that there is a possible conversation where another person talks about an event or something that happened a long time ago and the speaker is saying that he was a student at that time?
Or maybe it means something else completely.
Thanks for your reply
I have a question. Imagine you as a native speaker hear this sentence" "I was student way back when"
What would you percieve?
Does that mean: the speaker was a student a long time ago so he/she is no longer a studying
or it means that there is a possible conversation where another person talks about an event or something that happened a long time ago and the speaker is saying that he was a student at that time?
Or maybe it means something else completely.
Thanks for your reply
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Hi, I have a question. Imagine you as a native speaker hear this sentence" "I was student way back when" What would you percieve? The first thing I would perceive is that you are not a native speaker.
- Hi, I have a question.
- Imagine you as a native speaker hear this sentence" "I was student way back when" What would you percieve?
- The first thing I would perceive is that you are not a native speaker.
- That's because you didn't say 'a student'.
- Does that mean: the speaker was a student a long time ago so he/she is no longer a no article studying Without further context, that would be my assumption.
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Hi,
I have a question. Imagine you as a native speaker hear this sentence" "I was student way back when"
What would you percieve? The first thing I would perceive is that you are not a native speaker. That's because you didn't say 'a student'.
Does that mean: the speaker was a student a long time a
I have a question. Imagine you as a native speaker hear this sentence" "I was student way back when"
What would you percieve? The first thing I would perceive is that you are not a native speaker. That's because you didn't say 'a student'.
Does that mean: the speaker was a student a long time a
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