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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Measuring or measure

Question and Answer.. I think it's better to write measure and not measuring, correct?

Q: And I understand the next steps are to record stroke out and to record the distance that you swim underwater?

A: Yeah, so for the first version we have really the measuring the speed of the swimmers and really soon we're going to add the strokes and the underwater dive distance

  

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"Measuring" is correct. It is a gerund, which is an +ing verb form, the present participle, used as a noun. Running is good exercise.

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  • "Measuring" is correct.
  • It is a gerund, which is an +ing verb form, the present participle, used as a noun.
  • Running is good exercise.
  • ("Running" is a gerund, a noun, and it is the subject of the sentence.
  • If you have "the" before a phrase, that phrase is a noun phrase, so "the measuring" has to be the noun.
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"Measuring" is correct. It is a gerund, which is an +ing verb form, the present participle, used as a noun.

Running is good exercise. ("Running" is a gerund, a noun, and it is the subject of the sentence. If you have "the" before a phrase, that phrase is a noun phrase, so "the measuring" has to be the noun.

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anonymouswe have really the measuring the speed of the swimmers

This is not grammatical. I wonder if the following was meant, given the context:

we have measured the speed of the swimmers

CJ

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