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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

participle phrase?

I want to make a sentence that express mother's feeling of sending her son to another city for university. She feels sad.

Can I say like this?

I feel sad, thinking that you're leaving.
  

Top answer

I think this sounds better: I feel sad when I think that you're leaving. You can consider these as well: I feel sad that you are leaving/ are going to leave.

— Vsuresh

  • I think this sounds better: I feel sad when I think that you're leaving.
  • You can consider these as well: I feel sad that you are leaving/ are going to leave.
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I think this sounds better:

I feel sad when I think that you're leaving.


You can consider these as well:

I feel sad that you are leaving/ are going to leave.
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ah.. ok. You mean my sentence is grammatically okay but doesn't sound good?
I was just wondering why whenever I make a participle phrase, it doesn't sound that good?.?.
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Perhaps we use such phrases less often than you think.

Clive
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ah.. ok.. that's good to know^^
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