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Tenjing Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Are these sentences correct?

A. This is what you should've been doing.
B. What I did was (to) leave him alone.
C. What I have done is clean the room.
D. What you should have been doing was taking care of the baby.
Please help.
  

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tenjing Are these sentences correct? Yes. )

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tenjingAre these sentences correct?
Yes.

(Including to sounds extremely unnatural to me.)
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Thanks a lot. What about this one,
What I have done is cleaned the room. Is this sentence correct too? If it's correct, could you tell me the difference in meaning between this sentence and the sentence 'c'?
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tenjingWhat I have done is cleaned the room.
It sounds fine to me. However, note this passage in Introduction to the Grammar of English by Rodney Huddleston:

One frequent kind of pseudo-cleft involves relativising the complement of do: What John had done was (to) obtain the data, ...

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So both are possible, right? ?
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tenjing So both are possible, right? ?
In my opinion, yes.

CJ
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