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My brain has turned to mush.
I wrote it both ways without giving it a thought. Now that I'm at the editing stage I don't know if it's correct as it stands, or needs to be changed.
We learnt about camel husbandry... and learned how to cook on an open fire...
Help!
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The comments at the bottom are quite entertaining/enlightening too - worthy of some of our grammar debates!
:-B
(learn-ed).
Couldn't have it the other way round could you.
Here's his site:
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Neither is wrong; choose one and stick to it throughout.
I'd probably use smelled and smelt the other way around to Lizy - "I smelled the flowers" sounds active (I went over and sniffed the flowers), while "the flowers smelt lovely" sounds more passive (the flowers were smelling nice whether anybody sniffed them or not). I don't know, though, and it doesn't seem like either is definitely wrong.
I burned the toast; the toast was burnt.
I smelled smoke; the toast had burnt.