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Bahareh M Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Past Simple or Past Participle

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A teacher has stated that "measured" in the following sentence is not the past simple of the verb "measure". Do you agree or disagree with him? How should we infer this?

The essential challenge is to devise a single operational and trading framework that can accommodate traditional thermal-generation plants (large, inflexible units with slow ramp rates and lead times measured in hours), intermittent renewable plants (with unpredictable power fluctuations on time scales measured in minutes), and hydroelectric or other flexible plants (which help to integrate the other two generation types but have limited capacity and possibly high cost).

  

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Bahareh M A teacher has stated that "measured" in the following sentence is not the past simple of the verb "measure". It is not. It is the past participle used adjectivally.

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  • Bahareh M A teacher has stated that "measured" in the following sentence is not the past simple of the verb "measure".
  • It is not.
  • It is the past participle used adjectivally.
  • Nobody is measuring anything, so it is not a verb.
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Bahareh MA teacher has stated that "measured" in the following sentence is not the past simple of the verb "measure".

It is not. It is the past participle used adjectivally. Nobody is measuring anything, so it is not a verb.

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Bahareh MA teacher has stated that "measured" in the following sentence is not the past simple of the verb "measure". Do you agree or disagree with him?

Agree.

Bahareh MHow should we infer this?

By the grammatical pattern. A preposition (on) cannot take a sentence as its object (time scales measured in m

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