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#2 (permalink) Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:34 pm "Last time" VERSUS "The last time" |
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| Both sound more natural to me. :D |
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Jamie (K) I'm a Communicator ;-)
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#3 (permalink) Fri Oct 13, 2006 13:17 pm "Last time" VERSUS "The last time" |
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Hi Tom
All of these sound even more natural to me: ;)
When did you see him last? When did you last see him? When was the last time you saw him?
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#4 (permalink) Fri Oct 13, 2006 15:02 pm "Last time" VERSUS "The last time" |
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That was the last time I ever saw him. That was last time I ever saw him.
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#5 (permalink) Fri Oct 13, 2006 16:19 pm "Last time" VERSUS "The last time" |
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Hi Tom
Although Alan has been hearing people omitting articles lately, I'll nevertheless tell you that it's absolutely, positively, unquestionably impossible to omit the word 'the' in this case. Only the first sentence is correct: 8)
That was the last time I ever saw him.
And, of course, the idea of 'last' in your previous post is a little different from your first post.
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#6 (permalink) Sat Oct 14, 2006 0:17 am "Last time" VERSUS "The last time" |
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| "Last time" in your first post serves an adverbial function, which is why the article can be omitted. In your last post, it is serving only as a noun phrase, not as an adverbial. I think this has something to do with the reason "the" is optional in your first sentences but not in your other one. |
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