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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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after + -ing
What is the difference between these two sentences?
1- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after doing his shopping.
2- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after having done his shopping.
Thank you for your help !
Zoe
1- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after doing his shopping.
2- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after having done his shopping.
Thank you for your help !
Zoe
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Anonymous What is the difference between these two sentences? 1- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after doing his shopping. 2- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after having done his shopping.
- Anonymous What is the difference between these two sentences?
- 1- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after doing his shopping.
- 2- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after having done his shopping.
- Thank you for your help !
- Zoe To me, they mean the same thing.
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AnonymousWhat is the difference between these two sentences?To me
1- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after doing his shopping.
2- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after having done his shopping.
Thank you for your help !
Zoe
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Sentence 1 seems more ok to me! I've never use "after having done something". It's too long and I think it's not grammatical.
- Tammy
- Tammy
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Thank you for your quick response! Do you think both sentences are correct ?
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Hi Zoe,
1- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after doing his shopping.
2- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after having done his shopping. Just as the perfect tenses focus on 'the past in so far as it has importance for a later time', so does the perfect participle. We see this more clear
1- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after doing his shopping.
2- Yesterday, it took Scott half an hour to return from the supermarket after having done his shopping. Just as the perfect tenses focus on 'the past in so far as it has importance for a later time', so does the perfect participle. We see this more clear
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