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Comment by xboxnolifes

1 month ago

Each one of these has slightly different readings in my eyes.

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hyghjiyhu  1 month ago

Unlike the last variant, the first two imply there was some quantity of work and it was all completed.

I don't really see the difference between the two though.

  • thaumasiotes  1 month ago

    Well, option 1 implies that there was something else going on before the event described in the sentence. Option 2 is neutral about that.

    Compare:

    1. I did the work for that last week.

    2. I proceeded to do the work for that last week.

    Sentence 2 strikes me as questionably grammatical. It needs to be proceeding from something in the context.

unsupp0rted  1 month ago

Not different enough to make it worth using anything but the simplest one.

  • monster_truck  1 month ago

    I'm of the notion that my certainty is not sufficiently concrete to discover myself in the realm of agreement

  • overfeed  1 month ago

    Perhaps yet another American cultural artifact. One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness.