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WesternAmerican Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Feeling like leaving me alone? or feel like leaving me alone?

Which one is correct?
(In a conversation, which takes place in the present)
  

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Neither really makes sense. Could you put it into a short dialogue, please, so that I can see what you intend?

  • Neither really makes sense.
  • Could you put it into a short dialogue, please, so that I can see what you intend?
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Neither really makes sense. Could you put it into a short dialogue, please, so that I can see what you intend?
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I'm very upset right now. My mother enters the room and tells: 'Do the dishes!'
'Would you leave me alone?'
Emotion: stick out tongue
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This is correct:

Mom: 'Do the dishes!'
Child: 'Would you leave me alone?'

Do you have any further question?
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As a matter of fact, my hairy friend, I do.
In my previous post I wrote something simliar to 'my mom enters the room now'.
Why did I write enters and not entering, if now indicates Presnent Progressive?

Thank you!

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WesternAmericanIn my previous post I wrote something simliar similar to 'my mom enters the room now'.
Why did I write 'enters' and not 'entering', if now indicates Presnent Present Progressive?
'My mom is entering the room' is correct.
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My mother enters the room and says...
Although you didn't get it quite right, WA, this form is called narrative present: There was a bank robbery yesterday-- this guy grabs a gun, points it at the teller, and tells her to put all her money into a canvas bag!

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When do I use the narrative present?
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We generally use it when we are telling a story. Here's [url=http://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/intranet/englishbasics/Time01.htm]MORE[/url]. (This is a German URL, but the presentation is straightforward and clear.)
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Perhaps I can also use it when I give examples, just like I did earlier when you asked for a context.
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Yes, I found it natural enough there: it was a way of 'setting the stage', another use of the present narrative:

My mom enters the room and says...

Enter Hamlet and Horatio... The first Clown digs and sings... and throws up a skull...
Hamlet takes the skull -- '
Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio....'

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