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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Doing my best?

Hi, I have one question about the sentence below

"Doing my best, I will be a good English speaker"

Some Korean people say that the sentence is same as " Because(since/as) I do my best, I will be a good English speaker" and their explantion about that is "javascript:endicAutoLink('a'); javascript:endicAutoLink('participial construction');"

Please, explain the grammar about " doing my best"
  

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Anonymous lease, explain the grammar about " doing my best" It is wrong in your example sentence. It should read: If I do my best, I will be a good English speaker . Since the participle 'doing' has no intrinsic time element, it sounds quite awkward at the beginning of your sentence.

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  • Anonymous lease, explain the grammar about " doing my best" It is wrong in your example sentence.
  • It should read: If I do my best, I will be a good English speaker .
  • Since the participle 'doing' has no intrinsic time element, it sounds quite awkward at the beginning of your sentence.
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Anonymouslease, explain the grammar about " doing my best"
It is wrong in your example sentence. It should read:

If I do my best, I will be a good English speaker.

Since the participle 'doing' has no intrinsic time element, it sounds quite awkward at the beginning of your sentence.
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