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No, it is "as I did last summer."
"As I did it" would be about how something was done, not the fact that it was done.
"As I did it" would be about how something was done, not the fact that it was done.
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What about this below?
Don't lose your passport the way I did it last summer.
Don't lose your passport like I did it last summer.
Don't lose your passport as I did it last summer.
Do all these three mean the same?
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Is there some special method or unique way that you lost your passport?
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I just read in a text-book that in some variations of English we might possibly hear such things. So I wrongfully assumed it was American.
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Either the way or method doesn't matter actually. Who care for the way.
Don't lose your passport;I did it last summer.
Is this sentence wrong as well?
Does it mean how something was done? I don't think so.
I thought that an oversight had happened but it turned to your saying it wasn't the case.
Anyway the distinction between the sentence without "it" and with "it" is still strange to me.
Is it about the difference between Am E and Br E, maybe?
I had been so many times warned about my missing the "it" in similar sentences that I can't easily accept your explanation.
How to say the sentence
Don't lose your passport as I did last summer.
using the passive voice?
Don't use your passport as happened to me last year. or (What's the subject in the latter clause?)
Don't use your passport as it happened to me last year.
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I don't know how to be clearer. When you say "as I did it" you are referring to the manner in which you did something. Not the fact that it was done.
Example: "I got stuck in traffic, then had a flat tire. I had to call a cab and have my wife get the car from the freeway. I made my plane, but I would not recommend that you journey to the airport as I did it last week."
Example: "I got stuck in traffic, then had a flat tire. I had to call a cab and have my wife get the car from the freeway. I made my plane, but I would not recommend that you journey to the airport as I did it last week."
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Dave, I'm puzzled. We live in the same part of the country, but "as I did" absolutely means to me "as happened to me" not "in the manner in which I did it."
I mean, it CAN mean that, but in contexts like this one, I have no trouble understanding it to mean "as happened to me."
I mean, it CAN mean that, but in contexts like this one, I have no trouble understanding it to mean "as happened to me."
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I think I understand Dave's original question, "Is there some special method or unique way that you lost your passport?" about e2e4's, "Don't lose your passport the way I did it last summer/Don't lose your passport like I did it last summer/Don't lose your passport as I did it last summer".
He was suggesting, in response to e2e4's desire to retain 'it', that e2e4 might be referring to a different situation
Don't lose your passport as I did last summer = I lost my passport last summer; don't do the same thing.
Don't lose your passport as I did it last summer = I lost my passport in a stupid way last summer. If you are going to lose yours, try not to do so in the same way.
He was suggesting, in response to e2e4's desire to retain 'it', that e2e4 might be referring to a different situation
Don't lose your passport as I did last summer = I lost my passport last summer; don't do the same thing.
Don't lose your passport as I did it last summer = I lost my passport in a stupid way last summer. If you are going to lose yours, try not to do so in the same way.
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