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05-02-2010, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Decen View Post
The beginning of this sentence should be
"They were not able to..."
or if you wanted to right in future tense it would be
"They would not be able to..."
I am Kind of surprised Koir missed that.
And thus you see the errors creep in when longer compositions are revised. Yes, remove "be" from the revised sentence. It should read:

"They were not able to communicate these difficulties to the teacher because they didn’t know what to say in English."


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