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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 09:55 am
Is this sentence correct?
I have found a new website fortuitously and have known many new friends from it.
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JTT
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 10:31 am
@Loh Jane,
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Is this sentence correct?
I have found a new website fortuitously and have known many new friends from it.


"correct" is an odd word to use, LJ, because it's too loaded a term.

The word order is fine, it's grammatical, but it doesn't sound natural.

I have found a new website fortuitously and have known many new friends from it.

have known - this sounds like you are expressing a finished notion. For this situation we often use "get to know/make/come to know ..."

-> and have got to know many new friends.

-> and have made many new friends.

-> and have come to know many new friends.

I have found a new website fortuitously -

I have found -> The present perfect is used to introduce a past action that has current relevance/hot topic/important to now, so we use it to set the stage and then proceed to discuss it.

I have found a new website. It was quite by chance/accidental/...

Did you use a Chinese-English dictionary to choose 'fortuitously'?
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Mame
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 01:16 pm
This is what you said:

I have found a new website fortuitously and have known many new friends from it.

This is how I'd say that:

Luckily, I've found a new website and made many friends there.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 01:58 pm
@Loh Jane,
Loh Jane wrote:

Is this sentence correct?
I have found a new website fortuitously and have known many new friends from it.



I stumbled onto a new website and made a lot of friends.

Joe(I'm sure there is more to this story.)Nation
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nextone
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 07:34 pm
@Loh Jane,
Quite by chance, I came across an unfamiliar website, and now have become friends with many of the members.

Stranger things have happened. Very Happy
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 09:23 pm
@Loh Jane,
Not sure if it's actually correct or not, but I would change the word order slightly if you want to keep the same general wording.

"Fortuitously, I have found a new website and have acquired many new friends from it.
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Loh Jane
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 11:11 pm
Thanks all,
I use 'fortuitously' is because I want to learn at least a new word daily.
Is sentence natural?
Fortuitously,I have come across a new website and I have made many new friends.
roger
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 11:38 pm
@Loh Jane,
Pretty much. 'Fortuitously' is not an everyday work, but it sounds fine in this sentence.
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