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fw
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:05 am Post subject: Natural English?(2) |
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Hello everyone.
Imagine the speaker( or writer) of the sentences below currently lives in Japan.
( ). That�s why I can speak English.
1. I lived in London for five years
2. I have lived in London for the last five years
3. I have lived in London for five years
4. I have lived in London for five years in total
(1) I understand sentence #1 is natural English and #2 is not. Am I correct?
(2) Is sentence #3 natural English? If it is not, how about #4?
Best regards,
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Sirius
Joined: 11 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: |
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Sentence 1 implies that you no longer live in London
Sentence 2 and 3 would mean the same thing. I might use either one.
Sentence 4 - Would not be commonly used |
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Lorikeet
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| Sirius wrote: |
Sentence 1 implies that you no longer live in London
Sentence 2 and 3 would mean the same thing. I might use either one.
Sentence 4 - Would not be commonly used |
But you wouldn't use sentence 2 or 3 to mean the same thing as sentence 1, right? I thought that was the question. |
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