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Is This Statement Correct English? by mamagee3(f): 3:22am On Mar 18, 2013
Is this statement correct?

"Anytime they talk about money, my head started spinning"

What do you all think?
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by Nobody: 4:37am On Mar 18, 2013
No.. There are different tenses there. undecided
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by Bisjosh(f): 5:53am On Mar 18, 2013
No! "Starts" not "started"
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by Mynd44: 6:22am On Mar 18, 2013
How romantic
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by xtrafly(m): 7:19am On Mar 18, 2013
Mynd_44: How romantic
...like seriously
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by xtrafly(m): 7:20am On Mar 18, 2013
Mynd_44: How romantic
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by lanetrips: 7:40am On Mar 18, 2013
No sir
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by KINGwax(m): 7:40am On Mar 18, 2013
SniperInADiaper: No.. There are different tenses there. undecided
wrong answer!!

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Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by Mynd44: 7:57am On Mar 18, 2013
KINGwax: wrong answer!!
How is it wrong? There cannot be two past tense on one sentence and that was what that person pointed out
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by Nobody: 11:59am On Mar 18, 2013
No! Open the rules of "Concord"
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by KINGwax(m): 4:33pm On Mar 18, 2013
Mynd_44:
How is it wrong? There cannot be two past tense on one sentence and that was what that person pointed out
i DID not want to go there, u MADE me!
I'm sure av contravened ur thesis there, and don't ask for my conjunction!
Well, jokes apart, i wasn't telling her she was wrong cos of wot she said, I was only expecting her to buttress her point. cool
Re: Is This Statement Correct English? by boborosky(m): 7:52am On Mar 19, 2013
mama-gee:
Is this statement correct?

"Anytime they talk about money, my head started spinning"

What do you all think?
it can b corrected by changing d tenses.

Anytime they talk about money, my head starts spinning.

Each time they talked about money, my head started spinning.

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