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Anthon  #384395  Tue, 26 Jun 07 11:44 AM
ok here

i was marking one students oral exam and marked already but both of us were interupted by someone for 30 minutes and after that i carried on and told her her mark ,should i say " your mark for ur oral just now is 20 " or shold i say "your mark for your oral exam just now was 20 " because i feel weird to use 2 of them which i think 2 of them r possible ,please correct me
  
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Eimai_Anglos  #384560  Tue, 26 Jun 07 08:35 PM
Your sentence makes absolutely no sense to me. Please try using correct punctuation and spelling. In particular, avoid "txt-spk" which many people don't understand.
  
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Anthon  #385283  Thu, 28 Jun 07 10:55 AM
ok i'm sorry for it

here it is :

the condition is : i was marking one student's english oral examination, and the student had done the test but when i was about to tell her the mark, suddenly there's an interruption for 30 minutes and after that then i told her the mark.

my question is:

should i say

1. Your mark for your english oral exam just now is 7.5

2.Your mark for your english oral exam jst now was 7.5

should i use present tense (1) (which indicating the fact that she got 7.5 for her mark) or past tense (2) (which is used as it's past already)
  
Philip  #385393  Thu, 28 Jun 07 03:54 PM
I don't see that the length of time makes any difference.  Her mark on the test "was" 7.5 and still "is" 7.5 - the interruption has nothing to do with it.  Your choice of tenses.
  
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Cool Breeze  #385436  Thu, 28 Jun 07 05:44 PM
 Anthon wrote:
ok here i was marking one students oral exam and marked already but both of us were interupted by someone for 30 minutes and after that i carried on and told her her mark ,should i say " your mark for ur oral just now is 20 " or shold i say "your mark for your oral exam just now was 20 " because i feel weird to use 2 of them which i think 2 of them r possible ,please correct me

Are you sure you're the teacher and she is the student?
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Philip  #385574  Fri, 29 Jun 07 03:05 AM
 Cool Breeze wrote:
 Anthon wrote:
ok here i was marking one students oral exam and marked already but both of us were interupted by someone for 30 minutes and after that i carried on and told her her mark ,should i say " your mark for ur oral just now is 20 " or shold i say "your mark for your oral exam just now was 20 " because i feel weird to use 2 of them which i think 2 of them r possible ,please correct me

Are you sure you're the teacher and she is the student?
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Anthon  #385696  Fri, 29 Jun 07 12:05 PM
i never say i'm the teacher right. i was assigned by the teacher to mark the oral exam
  
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