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I have this sentence: Rebecca lived in the building and was one of my wife's closest friends. One of mine too, I supposed. With "I supposed", I'm trying to convey that if you had asked the ...
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System
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2019-12-08T07:59:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Tyler
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2019-12-08T07:59:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
I have this sentence: > Rebecca lived in the building and was one of my wife's closest friends. One of mine too, I supposed. With "I supposed", I'm trying to convey that if you had asked the narrator, at the time the story takes place, whether Rebecca was one of his closest friends, he would have said, "I suppose." But the way I've written it makes it sound as though this was something he was actively thinking about at the time the events of the narration takes place. Is there a shorter way of conveying this "if you had asked me" idea without resorting to the awkward "I supposed"?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-02-17T01:55:16Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 3