What are the correct sentences?
Please mark the correct sentences. I'm not asking which sentences are grammatical but which sentences sound natural, fine, okay, or marginally acceptable to your ears. (If a sentence is marginally acceptable, please mark it with *)
I waited for her for 20 years
I had waited for her for 20 years
I was waiting for her for 20 years
I am waiting for her for 20 years.
I had waited for her 20 years
I was waiting for her 20 years
I am waiting for her 20 years.
Top answer
(1) to (3) are all possible. The appropriate choice obviously depends on context. (4) seems a pretty unusual thing to say.
- (1) to (3) are all possible.
- The appropriate choice obviously depends on context.
- (4) seems a pretty unusual thing to say.
- The dropping of "for" can happen in everyday speech, but in writing I would include it.
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(1) to (3) are all possible. The appropriate choice obviously depends on context. (4) seems a pretty unusual thing to say.
The dropping of "for" can happen in everyday speech, but in writing I would include it.
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