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22 May
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How to understand this sentence:
“It wasn’t until we got there that he stopped.”
That means :
We got there, then he stopped.
or
We got there, then he also didn’t stop.
or
others?
How to understand this sentence:
“It wasn’t until we got there that he stopped.”
That means :
We got there, then he stopped.
or
We got there, then he also didn’t stop.
or
others?
“It wasn’t until we got there that he stopped.”
That means :
We got there, then he stopped.
or
We got there, then he also didn’t stop.
or
others?
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It means he stopped when we got there. And it implies that he stopped because we got there.
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