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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
hard time of +ing or hard time +ing ?
She had a hard time explaining the situation.
She had a hard time of explaining the situation.
Hello! What of sentences written above is more correct for you and why? In addition to those sentences given above I think it would be better if I give you some more to clear my problem.
1) I created The 9 back in 2008. The original venue was DC9, which is where the number of 9 came from. The 9 was created because Adrian(Krygowski) and myself and all of our peers around town, even in our prime drawing areas we may have a hard time of getting into clubs that we really want to get into.
(! have a hard time of getting !)
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2) I have a hard time going to school because I'm so behind? or I have a hard time accepting that those who do not believe will perish.
(! a hard time going !) and (! a hard time accepting !)
3) We have difference ways of solving this problem.
(! ways of solving !)
4) Have you any reason for saying such a thing ?
(! reason for saying !)
all these gerunds are used like an attribute for the words they(gerunds) follows but why some of people use a preposition between "a hard time" and a gerund and other don't do it ?
p.s. and feel free to correct my mistakes in my sentences if any!
She had a hard time of explaining the situation.
Hello! What of sentences written above is more correct for you and why? In addition to those sentences given above I think it would be better if I give you some more to clear my problem.
1) I created The 9 back in 2008. The original venue was DC9, which is where the number of 9 came from. The 9 was created because Adrian(Krygowski) and myself and all of our peers around town, even in our prime drawing areas we may have a hard time of getting into clubs that we really want to get into.
(! have a hard time of getting !)
and
2) I have a hard time going to school because I'm so behind? or I have a hard time accepting that those who do not believe will perish.
(! a hard time going !) and (! a hard time accepting !)
3) We have difference ways of solving this problem.
(! ways of solving !)
4) Have you any reason for saying such a thing ?
(! reason for saying !)
all these gerunds are used like an attribute for the words they(gerunds) follows but why some of people use a preposition between "a hard time" and a gerund and other don't do it ?
p.s. and feel free to correct my mistakes in my sentences if any!
Top answer
" As to the other sentences, they look fine to me, but there is one change I would make to sentence 1: 1. I created The 9 back in 2008. The original venue was DC9, which is where the number of 9 came from.
- " As to the other sentences, they look fine to me, but there is one change I would make to sentence 1: 1.
- I created The 9 back in 2008.
- The original venue was DC9, which is where the number of 9 came from.
- The 9 was created because Adrian(Krygowski) and myself and all of our peers around town, even in our prime drawing areas , we may have a hard time of had a hard time getting into clubs that we really want to get into.
- Sorry, I don't know the exact grammar rules for these situations.
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I think that both are technically correct, but as a native speaker, I would be more likely to say "She had a hard time explaining the situation."
As to the other sentences, they look fine to me, but there is one change I would make to sentence 1:
1. I created The 9 back in 2008. The original venue was DC9, which is where the number of 9 came from. The 9 was created because Adr
As to the other sentences, they look fine to me, but there is one change I would make to sentence 1:
1. I created The 9 back in 2008. The original venue was DC9, which is where the number of 9 came from. The 9 was created because Adr
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