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Hasibrahman Posted 6 years ago
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Can I write this sentence "I can only love a chocolate after my eating process is done" like this: I can only love a chocolate after my eating process being done?
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Hasibrahman Can I write this sentence "I can only love a chocolate after my eating process is done" like this: I can only love a chocolate after my eating process being done? No. "after" doesn't take a non-finite construction like that.
- Hasibrahman Can I write this sentence "I can only love a chocolate after my eating process is done" like this: I can only love a chocolate after my eating process being done?
- No.
- "after" doesn't take a non-finite construction like that.
- It seems to me that the only prepositions which can take that kind of construction are 'with' and 'without'.
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Hasibrahman Can I write this sentence "I can only love a chocolate after my eating process is done" like this: I can only love a chocolate after my eating process being done?
No. "after" doesn't take a non-finite construction like that.
It seems to me that the only prepositions which can take that kind of construct
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