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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by hyghjiyhu on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:53PM (#46279572)
Unlike the last variant, the first two imply there was some quantity of work and it was all completed.

I don't really see the difference between the two though.

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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by thaumasiotes on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:18PM (#46280804)
Well, option 1 implies that there was something else going on before the event described in the sentence. Option 2 is neutral about that.

Compare:

1. I did the work for that last week.

2. I proceeded to do the work for that last week.

Sentence 2 strikes me as questionably grammatical. It needs to be proceeding from something in the context.

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