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Does this sound natural in English?
I had the message that you sent me last time in my thoughts and it encouraged me a lot.
Does this sound natural in English?
I had the message that you sent me last time in my thoughts and it encouraged me a lot.
I had the message that you sent me last time in my thoughts and it encouraged me a lot.
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- English (US)
@leslieking close!
"your last message sent me" is not sure right. You are identifying who sent the message twice abd you don't need to:
"the last message you sent me". We are talking about the message, so "the message", and then we say it's yours with "you sent me".
or
"your last message". This is probably the more common way. We skip saying "sent me" because we can assume that: why would we talk about a message you sent someone else, or that you didn't send?
Either of these would work and be common.
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- English (US)
Its a little off. I would probably say "I thought about your last message" or "Your last message was in my thoughts".
Probably also, "and it gave me a lot of encouragement". "it encouraged me a lot" isn't wrong, but not how I would write it. Usually we say that things "give encouragement" if we're talking about how it helps us, and "encourage" or "encouraged" if the focus is more on the act, like, "She encouraged me from the side lines" vs "Her presence on the side lines gave me encouragement". The same thing, but one focuses on an action, the other on the effect.
- Romanian
@Fodagus Thank you. Does this sound matural?
I thought about your last message sent me in October and it gave me a lot of encouragement.
I thought about your last message sent me in October and it gave me a lot of encouragement.
- English (US)
@leslieking close!
"your last message sent me" is not sure right. You are identifying who sent the message twice abd you don't need to:
"the last message you sent me". We are talking about the message, so "the message", and then we say it's yours with "you sent me".
or
"your last message". This is probably the more common way. We skip saying "sent me" because we can assume that: why would we talk about a message you sent someone else, or that you didn't send?
Either of these would work and be common.
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