Engage in?
1) be engaged in something
2) engage in something
1) is closer to “a state verb”
2) is closer to “an action verb”
Is this a correct understanding?
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teacherJapan Is this a correct understanding? I was waiting for the teachers to weigh in, but it looks like you get me instead. Number one looks like the participial form of the phrasal verb "engage in".
- teacherJapan Is this a correct understanding?
- I was waiting for the teachers to weigh in, but it looks like you get me instead.
- Number one looks like the participial form of the phrasal verb "engage in".
- In standard schoolboy grammar, I parse it with copulative "be" and "engaged in something" as adjectival.
- Number two is the straightforward form of it.
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teacherJapanIs this a correct understanding?
I was waiting for the teachers to weigh in, but it looks like you get me instead.
Number one looks like the participial form of the phrasal verb "engage in". In standard schoolboy grammar, I parse it with copulative "be" and "engaged in something" as adjectival.
Number two is the straightforward form
0teacherJapan1) be engaged in something
2) engage in something
1) is closer to “a state verb” Yes.
2) is closer to “an action verb” Yes.
Is this a correct understanding? Yes.
CJ
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