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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

found her

Can I say,

(i) The doctor found her got rashes.

(ii) The doctor found rashes at /on / - John's stomach.
  

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The first sentence is definitely wrong. You have two processes (verb groups) in the one clause. You can only have one.

— Richard_s

  • The first sentence is definitely wrong.
  • You have two processes (verb groups) in the one clause.
  • You can only have one.
  • In order to have two processes, you need to make a separate clause.
  • In this case, you need a noun clause.
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The first sentence is definitely wrong.  You have two processes (verb groups) in the one clause.  You can only have one.  In order to have two processes, you need to make a separate clause.  In this case, you need a noun clause.  Noun clauses start with that.  Then this sentence would become: The doctor found that she had got a rash on her stomach.  Note that got is not reall
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