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muni
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 Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:02 am Post subject: need correction |
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1) I have heard that we are suppose to do it
2)none of you live here
3) I wish one of you would be here
4)had one of you been here I wouldn't have to face this problem |
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bud
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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1. ... supposed...
2. Yes!
3. Yes... You are talking about the future, right?.. Then again, this would also work as a polite way to say it for the present tense, I think.
4. it depends... this works for a situation where "if one of them had been here" (for example, an hour ago), "I wouldn't have to face this problem" (that I'm facing at the moment or that I am about to face in a few minutes). For example: Had one of you been here by now with your car, I wouldn't have to walk through this torrential rain to buy groceries.
If your "facing of the problem" was also in the past, then you need a small edit: Had one of you been here, I wouldn't have had to face this problem.
Very good, Muni! |
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muni
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| if (1) is not correct then is there any other way of saying it...... |
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bud
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:58 am Post subject: |
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| I wasn't very clear... The sentence is natural, and needs only that one correction: I have heard that we are supposed to do it. |
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