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Yzh1978 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Grammar , sparsely scattering
Canada has a sparsely scattering population of less than 20 million.
Canada has a population of less than 20 million scattering sparsely across the country.
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Canada has a population of less than 20 million scattering sparsely across the country.
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Canada has a population of less than 20 million scattered sparsely across the country.
- Canada has a population of less than 20 million scattered sparsely across the country.
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Canada has a population of less than 20 million scattered sparsely across the country.
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I feel puzzled ,why should I use past participle instead of present participle here ? Isn't the logical subject of "scatter" is" a population "Besides ," a population" can carry out the action of "scatter"? Why can't I use present participle here ? Thanks.
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The population isn't doing the scattering, the population is what has been scattered (by ***, by circumstance, by whatever you want).
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