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Minhuoc Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

yesterday

Which is natural?

1. Yesterday is the end of the year when pupils said goodbye to one another.

2. Yesterday, when pupils said goodbye to one another, is the end of the year.

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The sentence structure in 1 is more common to hear. Remember to use past tense. "

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The sentence structure in 1 is more common to hear. Remember to use past tense.

"Yesterday was the end of the year when the pupils said goodbye to one another."
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Can I write like this?

" The end of the year was yesterday when the pupils said goodbye to one another."

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perhaps:
" The end of the year, when the pupils said goodbye to one another, was yesterday."
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I think "the end of the year" commonly means "New Year's Eve". So I find it odd that pupils say good bye to one another on New Year's Eve. I might say like "Yesterday was the last day of the school year, and the pupils said good bye to one another."

paco
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Hi paco,

The context would no doubt make it clear that the statement refers to the school year. So would the reference to 'yesterday' if you said this at the end of June, which is the normal end of most school years.

Best wishes, Clive
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