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cuppacoffee
Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Glasgow
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:11 am Post subject: There's been a grammar question... |
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1. There's a parcel been delivered for you.
2. There's been a parcel delivered for you.
3. A parcel's been delivered for you.
Which do you think are more natural / grammatically correct?
Just interested...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) |
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Lorikeet

Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 1877 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:41 am Post subject: |
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2 and 3 sound okay to me. |
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Bob S.

Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 1767 Location: So. Cal
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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3 sounds best.
It could be shorted even more to:
There's a parcel for you. |
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