Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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00 I had an argument with a friend recently over the sentence: 02 br
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01 b 00 00 Students were noticed to obtain high scores after following the recommended learning pattern. 02 b 02 br
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00 I said I would definitely change this to: 02 br
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00 I 00 t was noticed/noted that students obtained high scores after following the recomemnded learning pattern. 02 br
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00 However, I could not justify the same. Can you give a justification? 0-
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00 I had an argument with a friend recently over the sentence: 02 br
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01 b 00 00 Students were noticed to obtain high scores after following the recommended learning pattern. 02 b 02 br
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00 I said I would definitely change this to: 02 br
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00 I 00 t was noticed/noted that students obtained high scores after following the recomemnded learning pattern. 02 br
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00 However, I could not justify the same. Can you give a justification? 0-
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0 This is a very interesting case, Anon! Unfortunately there is no justification other than the idiomatic usage of 01 i 00 notice 02 i 00 . English is replete with inconsistencies.
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0 This is a very interesting case, Anon! Unfortunately there is no justification other than the idiomatic usage of 01 i 00 notice 02 i 00 . English is replete with inconsistencies. There is nothing structurally ungrammatical in the sentence in bold: 01 u 00 noun 02 u 00 + were + 01 font 00 past participle 02 font 00 + 01
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