[General] We tried to access the wifi connection, but was not able to

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Ferdie11

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Hello,

Is the sentence below correct?

We tried to access the wifi connection, but was not able to.

Thanks.
 

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Hello,

Is the sentence below correct?

We tried to access the wifi connection, but was not able to.

Thanks.

No, you used "we" so you must use "were".

We tried to access the wifi connection, but were not able to.
I/He/She tried to access the wifi connection, but was not able to.
 

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Thank you, Munch. But can we say "We tried to access the wifi connection, but we were not able to"?
 

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Ferdie11

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Is the paragraph below correct? Actually the sentence above is actually from this paragraph.

We already tried to connect Mr. John’s wifi at L12 yesterday, but was not able to. When we brought the laptop to L14 it got connected. Then we tried again to bring it down to L10; it was connecting for a few seconds but got disconnected again. Please help.

 

bhaisahab

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Is the paragraph below correct? Actually the sentence above is actually from this paragraph.

We already tried to connect Mr. John’s wifi at L12 yesterday, but was not able to. When we brought the laptop to L14 it got connected. Then we tried again to bring it down to L10; it was connecting for a few seconds but got disconnected again. Please help.
We tried to connect Mr. John’s wifi at L12 yesterday but were not able to. When we brought the laptop to L14 it connected. Then we tried again to bring it down to L10; it was connecting for a few seconds but disconnected again. Please help.
 
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