Hello there. Teacher Alan told me that the following sentence is correct but unnatural. Can you please make it natural? I can't imagine how it should be in natural form.. :?
We translated the article by five o'clock.
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Re: a sentence
How about,
By five o'clock, we had (already( translated the article.
By five o'clock, the article was translated.
The article had been translated by five o'oclock.
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By five o'clock, we had (already( translated the article.
By five o'clock, the article was translated.
The article had been translated by five o'oclock.
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Re: a sentence
Ok. Thanks. 
