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Onelook Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Ants infesting your apartment

I tried to get rid of the ants infesting your apartment, but they are too resilient.


Is 'infesting' alright? I feel it's the wrong tense to use. Should I say 'that infested' instead?

  

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Here "infesting" is all right. Don't put "that infested" because it implies the ants have been removed which would make the sentence unclear.

— Anonymous

  • Here "infesting" is all right.
  • Don't put "that infested" because it implies the ants have been removed which would make the sentence unclear.
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Here "infesting" is all right.

Don't put "that infested" because it implies the ants have been removed which would make the sentence unclear.

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onelookIs 'infesting' alright? all right?

As shown. / Yes, it's all right.

onelookI feel it's the wrong tense to use.

It's not a tense. It's just a present participle (-ing form) without an auxiliary verb, so it can't be a tense. It's the first word of

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