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can help me to proofread the below:the housing scheme of xxxx comprises/comprising mainly double storey and detached bungalow houses. The nearby commercial centre of yyyy and zzzz comprises/comprising a shopping mall namely GGGG and a newly completed hospital...tq

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

You need a finite verb in each sentence.  Use 'comprises'.

Oc oo · Answer

how about this

The commercial centre of *** is about 2 kilometres to the south and 'comprising' two and four storey terraced shops and a wet market.

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Mister Micawber · Answer

You still need a finite verb there, oc oo.  What is a 'wet market'?

Oc oo · Answer

Thanks.

Actually what is a 'finite verb'?

a wet market is a place like sundry shop / foodstuff /seafood..all gather in 1 place

Mister Micawber · Answer

Thanks for defining 'wet market' for me. Wikipedia mentions the term, but no on-line English dictionaries include it, so I suggest that you replace it when you are writing to English speakers with 'open food market' or 'traditional market'.

As for 'finite verb': Finite verbs are the main verbs in sentences and clauses, the verbs referring to some area of time (past, present, future). In my last two sentences above, the finite verbs are mentions, include, suggest, are writing, and are. The only non-finite verb is referring in the last sentence; that verb form has no time of itself, but must be related to some finite verb in order to define its time:

Referring to my mother, I called her a gem

Referring to my mother, I call her a gem.

Referring to my mother, I'll call her a gem.

In those sentences, call is finite (it tells us the time of the action) and referring is non-finite (we can judge its time only by observing call.

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