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No.
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Thank you.
So, "the+ing" is never a verb to be followed by an object, and it should always alone, is that it?
So, "the+ing" is never a verb to be followed by an object, and it should always alone, is that it?
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fivejedjonNo. It's just that your original sentence has no real meaning.I'm not very sure what was intended either. "Do the matching of the stickers" is a possibility I suppose, but it's pretty clunky. Perhaps simply "Match the stickers" is what is required.
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GPY I'm not very sure what was intended either. "Do the matching of the stickers" is a possibility I suppose, but it's pretty clunky. Perhaps simply "Match the stickers" is what is required.Thank you.
Few days agi, I asked the similar question, let's do the sweeping of the floor, and the answer was "no". What do you think about this one? I see a simi
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It is as unnatural as the other one, If the verb has a direct object, then we are far more likely to use an imperative or a Let's construction that a Do the gerund,
Sweep the floor.
Lets sweep the floor.
Let's do the sweeping of the floor,
Match the stickers.
Do the matching of the stickers.
Sweep the floor.
Lets sweep the floor.
Match the stickers.
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