Imagine someone p.p
A. I imaged him perched on the grass.
Q1) Is sentence A correct English?
Q2) In sentence A, does "perched on the grass" describe "him"?
Q3) Is sentence A the same thing as "I imaged him being perched on the grass"?
Q4) If A is correct, is it also correct to say "I imagined him perched on the grass"?
I'm not sure whether "image someone past participle" structure is possible when "past participle" describes "him".
Top answer
o. ". "perched" suggests "a bird", and "on a branch".
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- "perched" suggests "a bird", and "on a branch".
- I wonder why you chose that word.
- Anyway, leaving that aside, "I imagined him perched on the grass" is grammatically OK.
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There is no "image s.o. ...", just "imagine s.o.".
"perched" suggests "a bird", and "on a branch". I wonder why you chose that word.
Anyway, leaving that aside, "I imagined him perched on the grass" is grammatically OK.
'perched on the grass' doesn't exactly describe him. It says what he's doing. In that case we say that it predicates something about him.
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