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Fattyshank Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Need help with sentences

Hello you all!

When I saw Nominative Participle Construction and sentence like this:"Time permitting, I’ll come next week" or "We went out for a walk, the dog running behind us" So, why can we use "ing" in the past, present and future tenses? Can I just say" She walking there everyday"; (when i saw smashed cars or something): "Looks like an Elephant going by there";"I having a lot of fun yesterday"; Tommorow I flying away to Canada" And why would we use this instead of ordinary grammar?


Thanks a lot!
  

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fattyshank Hello you all! When I saw Nominative Participle Construction and sentence like this:"Time permitting, I’ll come next week" or "We went out for a walk, the dog running behind us" So, why can we use "ing" in the past, present and future tenses? Can I just say" She walking there everyday"; (when i saw smashed cars or something): "Looks like an Elephant going by there";"I having a lot of fun yesterday"; Tommorow I flying away to Canada" And why would we use this instead of ordinary grammar?

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  • fattyshank Hello you all!
  • When I saw Nominative Participle Construction and sentence like this:"Time permitting, I’ll come next week" or "We went out for a walk, the dog running behind us" So, why can we use "ing" in the past, present and future tenses?
  • Can I just say" She walking there everyday"; (when i saw smashed cars or something): "Looks like an Elephant going by there";"I having a lot of fun yesterday"; Tommorow I flying away to Canada" And why would we use this instead of ordinary grammar?
  • Thanks a lot!
  • Time permitting, I’ll come next week.
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fattyshankHello you all!
When I saw Nominative Participle Construction and sentence like this:"Time permitting, I’ll come next week" or "We went out for a walk, the dog running behind us" So, why can we use "ing" in the past, present and future tenses? Can I just say" She walking there everyday"; (when i saw smashed cars or something): "Looks like an Elephant going
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fattyshankShe walking there everyday" ... "I having a lot of fun yesterday" ... Tommorow Tomorrow I flying away to Canada
No. You can't just say these things because these are main clauses, or rather, attempts to form main clauses. The -ing constructions you are talking about can only be used as subordinate clauses
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Thank you all very much!
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