From Isaac Asimov (Little Lost Robot)
WHEN I DID SEE SUSAN CALVIN AGAIN, IT WAS AT the door of her office
Is this a grammatic error? Past simple - WHEN I SAW SUSAN
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Is this a grammatic error?
No, it isn't. You need to read this in context:
It was two days before I could get to see her again.
WHEN I DID SEE SUSAN CALVIN AGAIN, IT WAS AT the door of her office. Files were being moved out.
The narrator did not see her for two days. Now he describes what happened when he (finally) did see her again.
answered Sep 18, 2016 at 17:22
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This (1) is answering a question already flagged as a duplicate, (2) does not even mention emphatic do, and (3) gives no supporting evidence, just coming across as personal opinion about correctness. Commented Sep 18, 2016 at 17:47
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@EdwinAshworth Answering a question already marked as duplicate is not possible. What you should really ask yourself is whether the answer helped the person asking for help. I am under the impression you forgot what this is all about, before anything else. Commented Sep 18, 2016 at 18:12
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I'm sorry, michael.hor257k, but accepting your opinion would lead to the question someone once asked here about the best way to keep goldfish being on-topic. I said flagged (ie pointed out) as a duplicate. As Janus Bahs Jacquet has said: '[Y]ou should always keep in mind the possibility of duplicates when reading (and answering) a question, and consider how likely a question is to be a duplicate. This one … [pretty] likely.' If the same questions keep being allowed and answered, the site degenerates into an inconsistent hotch-potch. Commented Sep 18, 2016 at 20:41
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@EdwinAshworth As it happens, I wrote my answer before you flagged the question as a duplicate. Not that it matters much, because I don't think the other question provides an answer to this one - and I don't see why your opinion on this matter should take precedence over mine. Commented Sep 18, 2016 at 20:47