#if you saw me delete an earlier version of this. no you didnt. (that poll was set to one day only)
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There are a few ways to construct casual variants of the following sentence: "It was unnecessary for ALL of us to do this thing."
And tell me in the tags whether these three phrasings mean different things to you, where you're from, and what your first language was!
I'm from the US Midwest and although construction 3 feels the most natural to me, I typically use 2 instead, because it sounds more normal to the people around me.
#linguistics#language poll#polls#dialect#my own post wow#if you saw me delete an earlier version of this. no you didnt. (that poll was set to one day only)#oh and all of these sentences mean the same thing to me but i guess if somebody played with emphasis they could be different#first language English#but i use a lot of atypical constructions so.
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