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Who does the "groanings" belong to? | present perfect vs simple past
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our vs. ours #1 (permalink) Wed Apr 30, 2008 20:58 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 #2 (permalink) Thu May 01, 2008 2:39 am   our vs. ours
 

Hi Torsten,

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

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