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What tense should I use? Hello everybody! I'm doing an exercise where I have to decide what tense of the verb in the brackets to use (turns out it's kind of tricky urgh). It's like a story of a past event someone is talking about. Here it is: He told me he got married to Anne. When I still lived in Bampton I fell in love with her. She was the most beautiful girl of the school. They have got three children. He said he would have liked to move to a big city where he could find a better job. But if he had moved, his family wouldn't have been happy because even if would have been able to earn more money, they did not want to start a new life in another place. Moreover Anne was afraid that a big city might have been a dangerous place to grow up the children. How wrong am I? Thanks in advance to whomever will help!
2017年1月15日 14:44
回答 · 11
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Can you put the correct answers into the paragraph? Then it will be easy to check.
2017年1月15日
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Your answers mainly look fine. In the third line, 'could have found' is preferable. The next sentence should all be in the third conditional: But if he had moved, his family wouldn't have been happy, because even if he had been able to earn more money, they wouldn't have wanted to start a new life in another place. The last sentence is incorrect, but it isn't your fault! This text was obviously written by a non-native English speaker who doesn't know how to use the intransitive phrasal verb 'grow up'. Whatever tense you put 'grow' into, this sentence will always be wrong. You could say, for example, 'a dangerous place to bring up the children' or 'a dangerous place for the children to grow up'. But 'grow up the children' simply isn't correct English. Another odd expression that looks a bit like 'Italian English' is 'the most beautiful girl of the school.' It should be 'in', not 'of'.
2017年1月15日
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All good except: had got married would have liked to have moved could have found [Also: "girl in the school", "bring up the children"] Hard exercise. Well done.
2017年1月15日
That's what I thought. It might seem more coherent if you changed the third sentence to something like 'But now she was married to John and had three children'. That would at least highlight the contrast between the reminiscences of the speaker's schoolboy infatuation and the present situation. It's basically a very poorly thought-out text.
2017年1月15日
The second and third sentences do not really fit in with the rest. It sounds like you are saying that it was you, rather than her husband, who fell in love with Anne.
2017年1月15日
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