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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Could you help me?

Could you check whether the following sentence is right?
Thank you.

Don't you think that the young chinese people speaking English more fluently today?
  

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No. Say eg Don't you think that young Chinese people are speaking English more fluently today?

— Clive

  • No.
  • Say eg Don't you think that young Chinese people are speaking English more fluently today?
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No.
Say eg Don't you think that young Chinese people are speaking English more fluently today?
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Don't you think that young Chinese people today speak English more fluently?
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How about "Don't you think young Chinese people speaking English more fluently today?"
Is it also acceptable?
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No. The auxiliary verb DO goes with the bare infinitive speak.
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Actually, the word is not "speak," but "speaking."
Could you answer my question again?
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lucas21cCould you answer my question again?
The auxiliary verb DO goes with the bare infinitive speak.
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I thought the verb of this sentence is "think," not "speak," and the "speaking" is an object complement which postmodifies the object, "Chinese people."
Is the structure that I thought wrong and unacceptable?
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I think young Chinese people speaking English more fluently (than their parental generation).

(fivejedjon, I am sorry that I bother you again and again. If you do not want to talk about this issue more, I can wait another answer from other teacher
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