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Quickie: Is this sentance gramatically correct?

March 02, 2008 9:20pm

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  • #1 / Mar 02, 2008 9:20pm

    theswede

    21 posts

    Is this correct?

    I often sat around the house, wondering what our home electronics’ internals looked lik

  • #2 / Mar 03, 2008 12:03am

    ontguy

    128 posts

    I often sat around the house, wondering what our home electronics’ internals looked like.

    Sounds correct to me. Its telling of a past habit.

  • #3 / Mar 03, 2008 12:27am

    Michael Wales

    2070 posts

    No, verb tense consistency between “sat” and “wondering” - here’s a quick article from Purdue on the subject.

    I would have written this sentence as:

    I often sat around the house and wondered what our home electronics’ internals looked like.

  • #4 / Mar 04, 2008 11:32am

    theswede

    21 posts

    Thanks for the help, decided to scrap that sentance anyway since it was kinda lame (for a cover letter)

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