Sentence #12 - REVEALED
How did you do?
I sort of thought we’d be done by now.
These are the things that might have tripped you up.
The informal use of sort of to “soften” the statement.
The connection in sort of, which make it sound like one word: sorta
The pronunciation of thought, because the pronunciation of words with -ough can be confusing
The contracted form of we’d, which means you have to know whether it is we would or we had
The grammar of the phrase would be done, a passive hypothetical statement that’s usually not taught until advanced levels
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