Joeviee Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Long time
0 Hello All, 02 br
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00 I had a chat with a native-speaker recently over msn messenger and he said this, "Haven't 02 br
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00 seen you IN a long time," and next " haven't seen you for long." 02 br
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00 For me, both sentences sound unnatural to me as i would prefer to say "haven't seen you FOR 02 br
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00 a long time". I wonder if "IN" and "FOR" in that sentence sounds the same to a native 02 br
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00 speaker? 02 br
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00 The second sentence, "haven't seen you for long", certainly sounds weird to me. How about 02 br
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00 I had a chat with a native-speaker recently over msn messenger and he said this, "Haven't 02 br
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00 seen you IN a long time," and next " haven't seen you for long." 02 br
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00 For me, both sentences sound unnatural to me as i would prefer to say "haven't seen you FOR 02 br
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00 a long time". I wonder if "IN" and "FOR" in that sentence sounds the same to a native 02 br
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00 speaker? 02 br
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00 The second sentence, "haven't seen you for long", certainly sounds weird to me. How about 02 br
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Top answer
0 'In' = 'for' commonly in this construction. The second sentence sounds unnatural and perhaps represents a typo. Did the two sentences arrive together in the same message?
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0 'In' = 'for' commonly in this construction. The second sentence sounds unnatural and perhaps represents a typo. Did the two sentences arrive together in the same message? 0-
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0 Thanks for your quick reply Mister M. Yes both sentences arrived together in the same message but it could be a typo like you said. Thanks for reassuring me that i am right. 0-
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