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that happend Today, I have a English class at the university, so I was going to prepare it. Then I found the papers were wet! To dry those papers, I arranged them one by one on the table.

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This is what happened today

Today I have an English class at the university, so I was going to prepare for it, but then I found out that the papers were wet!

To dry the papers, I arranged them one by one on the table.

【This makes sense but it feels just slightly unnatural to how you would tell an anecdote or story. 

Generally you describe what was occuring (getting ready for class) at the time you made the discovery or something else happened  I.e if you were eating and a friend came it would be 食べているところ友だち来た sort of thing.】

I was getting ready to go to an English class today at University, when I found out that my papers for it were all wet!

To dry them I had to lay them out one by one on my table. 


If you want me to try and explain anything I can give it a go :)

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that's what happened today

Today, I have a had an English class at the university, so when I was going to prepare(my papers for it) it. Then but I found the papers th it were wet! To dry those papers, I arranged i put them one by one on the table.


Hi , I've tried to correct it as far as i can .. :)

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Amanda -- Thank you for your advice!
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--Darryl That is more awful than my experience! Fortunately I spilled water, so there were no stains on my papers.
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I just wanted to give my two cents. I noticed both the corrections changed the title, and while I agree with their changes, it's important to note that as an English speaker, I use the sentence "that happened" quite frequently. When something unbelievable, or very frustrating happens I might say "Well that just happened" or in short "that happened".

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