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    Default Imagine you are on a desert island.What would you take with you?

    Is this sentence grammatically acceptable?
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    Default Re: Imagine you are on a desert island.What would you take with you?

    Quote Originally Posted by snoopya1984 View Post
    Is this sentence grammatically acceptable?
    Take where? If I'm already on a desert island and someone asks me what I would take with me, that suggests I'm leaving the desert island and going somewhere else.

    Imagine you are going to be stranded on a desert island. What would you take with you?
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    Default Re: Imagine you are on a desert island.What would you take with you?

    I would take some lonely memories ..The days passed by on the side of the the blue ocean would give me courage to walk on the surface of the earth ......

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    Default Re: Imagine you are on a desert island.What would you take with you?

    Quote Originally Posted by sumon. View Post
    I would take some lonely memories ..The days passed by on the side of the the blue ocean would give me courage to walk on the surface of the earth ......
    I would take a year's supply of toilet rolls.
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    Default Re: Imagine you are on a desert island.What would you take with you?

    I'd take Natalie Merchant with me!!!
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