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User_gary  #409147  Sat, 25 Aug 07 07:54 AM

The bus departure time was "1 p.m.", and we get off home only at 12.50 p.m., so we had to ran to catch/get the train.

Can I use the word `catch' and `get' alternatively in this context?

  
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Wanwo  #409159  Sat, 25 Aug 07 08:29 AM

You can use either.

The rest of your grammar is a bit screwy.

  
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Feebs11  #409238  Sat, 25 Aug 07 12:50 PM
 User_gary wrote:

The bus departure time was "1 p.m." [no quotation marks required], and we get off home only at 12.50 p.m., so we had to ran [wrong tense - this requires the infinitive] to catch/get the train.

Can I use the word `catch' and `get' alternatively in this context?  Yes

  
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Clive  #409411  Sun, 26 Aug 07 01:12 AM

Hi,

we get off home only at 12.50 p.m.

Instead of this, say we left home only at 12.50 p.m.

Best wishes, Clive

  
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User_gary  #409473  Sun, 26 Aug 07 07:53 AM

Thank you friends.

 Feebs11 wrote:
 User_gary wrote:

home only at 12.50 p.m., so we had to ran [wrong tense - this requires the infinitive] to catch/get the train.

I thought about it for a while, but I couldn't find any mistake in this (we had to ran to catch/get the train) sentence. So could you tell me what the wrong is.

  
Feebs11  #409574  Sun, 26 Aug 07 12:09 PM
You have not used the right tense. What is the infinitive of running?
  
User_gary  #416589  Mon, 10 Sep 07 08:47 AM

 Feebs11 wrote:
You have not used the right tense. What is the infinitive of running?

I got it. It should be "to run". Am I right?

So the sentence becomes "I had to run to catch/get the train".

  
Neeraj Jain  #416592  Mon, 10 Sep 07 09:00 AM
 User_gary wrote:

So the sentence becomes "I had to run to catch/get the train".

Yes, now the sentence is perfect.

N. Jain

  
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