A few days ago
Is this grammatically correct?
I really hope she’s not as mean as Mrs. Long described her to be.
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A few days ago
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That sounds fine.
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A few days ago
Take out the last two words and it will be fine. They are redundant. As far as what someone else saying about tenses need to be the same, this doesn’t always apply; here, it doesn’t apply because she is (in the present) but Mrs. Long described her (in the past).
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A few days ago
Grammatically speaking it is proper to have tense congruency throughout your sentence, thus, the word ‘described’ should have been ‘describes’ (the simple present tense) to follow suit with the verbs in the first part of your sentence.
Technically speaking, you could get away with the way you have written the sentence, since the mistake would be imperceptible to someone with little or no grammar expertise..
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A few days ago
Yes.
You could also simply say, “I really hope she’s not as mean as Mrs. Long described her.”
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A few days ago
Sounds fine to me.
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A few days ago
Yes!
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A few days ago
That’s correct.
=D
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A few days ago
i think you need to have a “that” after hope. otherwise looks ok
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A few days ago
I believe so.
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