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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ago I called" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly as it lacks a proper time reference before "ago," which is necessary for clarity.
Example: "Two days ago I called you."
Alternatives: "I called you two days back" or "I called you previously."
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Not long ago, I called my mother.
A few weeks ago, I called Vakarchuk in New Haven.
Not long ago, I called Tena Alonzo, and asked after some of the residents I had met.
Long ago, I called him "a poet at once urgent and timeless".
A few weeks ago, I called Eric Labuske, a twenty-six-year-old from Madrid who is a member of Podemos.
A few years ago, I called them on the Friday before Labor Day, and we wound up staying at an amazing bayside cabin.
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Not long ago, when I called for an appointment I was told that my barber had retired — to Florida.
"I just said it as a lark," she told me not long ago, when I called to inquire about the upcoming Fourth Great Obituary Writers' Conference.
You were saying years ago that "I called George Bush Sr., and he had helped me in my campaign in Massachusetts when I ran for Senate.
"You're supposed to protect it — democracy," Jimmy Breslin barked at me a few months ago, when I called to ask his feelings about the Mayor.
Two months ago, I brazenly called Smittens – the mittens built for compulsory hand-holding – the "World's dumbest mittens" (original post here).
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