The day before

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Liveinjapan  #443166  Fri, 16 Nov 07 08:50 AM

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I saw this room yesterday.
Someone cleaned this room 4days ago.


The room was clean when I came there yesterday because someone had cleaned this room the day three days before yesterday.

Is this correct?
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Vorpar  #443168  Fri, 16 Nov 07 09:06 AM

The room was clean when I went there yesterday because someone had cleaned it four days ago.

"to come" works better when the action is toward the area the speaker is in. It should work in the same way that 来る does.

It's also uncommon to use "three days before yesterday", it would be more natural to say "four days ago." After "the day before yesterday" it's much more common to say the number of days, and not using yesterday.

  
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Liveinjapan  #443192  Fri, 16 Nov 07 01:13 PM
 Vorpar wrote:

The room was clean when I went there yesterday because someone had cleaned it four days ago.

"to come" works better when the action is toward the area the speaker is in. It should work in the same way that 来る does. I see.

It's also uncommon to use "three days before yesterday", it would be more natural to say "four days ago." After "the day before yesterday" it's much more common to say the number of days, and not using yesterday.

Thank you, Vorpar. I understand. Smile [:)]

  
Grammar Geek  #443321  Fri, 16 Nov 07 06:10 PM

OR:

... because someone had cleaned it three days before.

  
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Liveinjapan  #443432  Sat, 17 Nov 07 01:40 AM

Thank you, GG. I understand perfectly thanks to both of you.

LiJ

  
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