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Roky0071 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Could you simplify the meaning of the 'ing' forms of the verbs?

" Imagine a dog tracking a rabbit, sniffing the ground and following its scent''

Here in the above sentence, Could you simplify the meanings of 'sniffing the ground and following its scent' in a simple way and could you put a similar sentence instead of it without changing the meaning?

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roky0071 Could you simplify the meanings of 'sniffing the ground and following its scent' They are participle clauses. They are basically extensions of the idea of imagining a dog. Imagine a dog which is tracking a rabbit.

  • roky0071 Could you simplify the meanings of 'sniffing the ground and following its scent' They are participle clauses.
  • They are basically extensions of the idea of imagining a dog.
  • Imagine a dog which is tracking a rabbit.
  • As the dog tracks the rabbit, he will be sniffing the ground and following the scent of the rabbit.
  • Those are the things that a dog does when tracking a rabbit.
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roky0071Could you simplify the meanings of 'sniffing the ground and following its scent'

They are participle clauses. They are basically extensions of the idea of imagining a dog.

Imagine a dog which is tracking a rabbit.

As the dog tracks the rabbit, he will be sniffing the ground and following the scent of the rabbit. Those are the things th

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roky0071" Imagine a dog tracking a rabbit, sniffing the ground and following its scent''

A hunting dog is bred to catch rabbits.

It discovers rabbits by smell, not by sight.

A rabbit leaves its smell on the ground, and the dog can find it. The dog follows the smell of the rabbit. This is called "tracking a rabbit."

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