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Who does the "groanings" belong to? | present perfect vs simple past
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our vs. ours Wed Apr 30, 2008 21:58 pm  our vs. ours
 

Please take a look at the following sentence. In my opinion 'our' should be replaced by 'ours'. What do you think?

Whereas most search engines ran off a handful of large servers that often slowed under peak loads, our employed linked PCs to quickly find each query's answer.
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our vs. ours Thu May 01, 2008 3:39 am  our vs. ours
 

Hi Torsten,

I agree with you 100% Very Happy . It's a typo, I think, for 'ours' (=our search engine(s)).

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