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already

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:10 pm
by Cosmos
Hello, teacher!

Are both natural and common?

1. When I went there again, the new building had already been built.
2. When I went there again, the new building had been built already.

Thank you very much.

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:37 am
by Alan
Only #1 is natural as standard English.

(The second sounds like New York (quasi-Yiddish?) dialect, where an expletive 'already' is placed at the end of a sentence simply for emphasis!)