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Ritik Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

English grammar

Hello sir,

I want to ask you one question.

1) The students are gathered for the marriage ceremony.

2) The students have gathered for the marriage ceremony.

Which one is correct?

What is the difference between the two sentences above ?

  

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ritik 1) The students are gathered for the marriage ceremony. This can be taken two ways. In the reading that first comes to mind, the students are now together in one area—subject "student", copulative "are", participle of intransitive "gather" as predicate adjective "gathered".

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  • ritik 1) The students are gathered for the marriage ceremony.
  • This can be taken two ways.
  • In the reading that first comes to mind, the students are now together in one area—subject "student", copulative "are", participle of intransitive "gather" as predicate adjective "gathered".
  • This is not the most natural way of saying this; number 2 is.
  • In fact, I would never put it this way.
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ritik1) The students are gathered for the marriage ceremony.

This can be taken two ways. In the reading that first comes to mind, the students are now together in one area—subject "student", copulative "are", participle of intransitive "gather" as predicate adjective "gathered". This is not the most natural way of saying this; number 2 is. In fact, I would

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ritikWhat is the difference between the two sentences above ?

They belong to different paradigms. Note that your first sentence has two possible meanings. The more likely meaning without context, in my opinion, is the first meaning shown below, the stative.

Stative: The students are standing in a particular configuration, i.e., close together. Com

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