A speaker says:
You know, you could've finished your project if you hadn't gone to play at your friend's house.
Which of the following is the correct way to transcribe this according to our Clean Verbatim Style Guide?
A) You know, you could have finished your project if you hadn't gone to play at your friend's house.
B) You could have finished your project if you had not gone to play at your friend's house.
C) You could've finished your project if you hadn't gone to play at your friend's house.
Answers
Explanation:
B option is right answer
Answer:D) You could've finished your project if you had not gone to play at your friend's house.
Explanation:
When you have a clean verbatim style guide, your audio or video files have only undergone little editing to make them easier to read. Except for the removal of all the extraneous distractions, it is still an exact transcription of what was recorded. Clean verbatim style guide is a precise replication of what was said, cleaned up for clarity; there is never any paraphrasing.
By doing so only the words are broken down into an easily readable manner without changing the meaning or the statement given. As in this case the meaning of both the sentences remain same i.e. one could have finished his/her project if they didn't go to their friend's place but the readability has been made simpler in the second sentence.
Given- You know, you could've finished your project if you hadn't gone to play at your friend's house.
Answer- You could've finished your project if you hadn't gone to play at your friend's house.
Removing 'you know' does not change the meaning yet makes it easily understandable and readable.
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