I couldn’t believe lecturer assigned our group to do that research

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Help me plz
A:" I couldn’t believe lecturer assigned our group to do that research"
B: "______. The topic’s quite complicated to understand"
Fill in blank with
a. Never mind
b. I don’t think that’s good idea
c. Fair enough
d. You’re welcome

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Which do you think is correct? Also, where did you find this exercise and why are you doing it?

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Oh, it was in my exam, i know the answer, but I can’t understand

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This sentence contains at least two mistakes. Are you sure you have copied it correctly?

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I have only spotted one mistake…‘I couldn’t believe THE lecturer assigned our group to do that research.’ Where is the other mistake? I’m curious.

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It needs a period aska full stop.

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So I spotted both mistakes. The 2nd one, I took it for granted!

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Is this sentence grammatically correct?.. I had had a cup of coffee and afterwards I went shopping.

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It is probably grammatically correct, but it is very unnatural and therefore quite useless.

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So, how would this sentence sound more natural? I wish to keep the same tenses i.e. past perfect and past tense.

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There is no need for the past perfect. If you want the sentence to be natural you need to get rid of the past perfect.

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OK, so in order to sound natural you need to say: I had a cup of tea and then I went shopping.

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Exactly. No need for the past perfect here.