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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

correct this simple sentence

Yesterday while I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down.

Yesterday while I was trying to climb up the tree, fell down.

Yesterday, while I was trying to climb up the tree, fell down.

While I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down yesterday.

Are these sentences correct?
  

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Yesterday while I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down. Yesterday while I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down. Yesterday, while I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down.

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Yesterday while I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down.

Yesterday while I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down.

Yesterday, while I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down.

While I was trying to climb up the tree, I fell down yesterday
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I think the last one is pretty weird with "yesterday" at the end.
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^Yeah. Only the first one is correct.
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Thank you friends.
OlaTheNetsurfer^Yeah. Only the first one is correct.
Do you mean third one is incorrect? I am too keen to know about the third sentence; particularly about the comma that I placed after the yesterday.
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The last sentence sounds strange to me too. If you look at the order of the sentence you can use "while" at first but semantically it sounds strange.
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Thank you Doll.

But I am talking about third sentence where I put a comma after the "yesterday".
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It seems correct to me but I am not good at punctuation. The clause between commas seems like an explanative sentence.

Yesterday I fell down is the real message.----> Yesterday, while I was climbing on a tree, I fell down. The underlined sentence is an explanative one. Maybe this form of sentence is incorrect in terms of punctuation but I just comment it like this.
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Hi,

As a minor comment, the usual expression is 'climb a tree' instead of 'climb up a tree'.

Note also that you would normally say 'a tree', unless you were speaking of one specific and previously mentioned tree.

Finally, we often say 'fell' rather than 'fell down'.

Clive