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[welkins2139]

#1 It is the third longest river in the world.

#2 The scenery is spectacular there.

#3 It was a fantastic experience when you were on the boat in the river.

Thank you

[Mister Micawber]

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#3 is semantically odd: how does the speaker know the quality of the listener's experience? 'It must have been'...?
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[welkins2139]

Thank you Mister Micawber,

Can I say:

It was a fantastic experience when I was on the boat in the river.

[Mister Micawber]

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That sounds better.
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"I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." � Gertrude Stein
...............
Canadian-American who teaches English for a living at Mr Micawber's