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Old September 23, 2012, 02:52 AM
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Spanish Practice 1

Fue seguramente el peor domingo de me vida no tenia mi familia e amigos y estaba corta de dinero. Tuve que trabajar duro todo el día a pagar algo dinero.



It was the worst sunday of mi life. I didn't have mi family or friends around and I was short of money. I had to work hard the whole day to earn some money.
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Fue seguramente (not in the translation) el peor domingo de me vida(missing punctuation) No tenia mi familia e amigos y estaba corta de dinero. Tuve que trabajar duro todo el día a (wrong preposition) pagar (wrong verb) algo (omit) dinero.



It was the worst sunday of mi life. I didn't have mi family or friends around and I was short of money. I had to work hard the whole day to earn some money.
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You've mixed preterit and imperfect tenses in your narrative. Switching one of them will fix the problem.
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Old September 23, 2012, 08:14 AM
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Fue seguramente (not in the translation) el peor domingo de mi vida. (missing punctuation) No tenia mi familia y amigos y estaba corta de dinero. Tuve que trabajar duro todo el día para ganar dinero.

It was surely the worst sunday of my life. I didn't have mi family or friends around and I was short of money. I had to work hard the whole day to earn some money.
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Old September 23, 2012, 08:46 AM
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Fue seguramente el peor domingo de mi vida. No tenia mi familia y amigos y estaba corta de dinero. Tuve que trabajar duro todo el día para ganar dinero.

It was surely the worst sunday of my life. I didn't have mi family or friends around and I was short of money. I had to work hard the whole day to earn some money.
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Old September 23, 2012, 09:03 AM
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Fue seguramente el peor domingo de mi vida. No tenía mi familia o amigos y estaba corta de dinero. Tuve que trabajar duro todo el día para ganar dinero.

It was surely the worst Sunday of my life. I didn't have my family or friends around and I was short of money. I had to work hard the whole day to earn some money.
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Good job.
I marked 'tuve' as needing to be changed because its tense doesn't agree with the tense of the verbs used in the sentence previous to it. That sentence is a narrative (letting us know how you were feeling or how you were fairing), so I would expect the next sentence to continue in like fashion.
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