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Tuongvan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Please check

Dear teachers,
Could you possibly check that my sentences below are ok?:

They simply think that their having registered for the training course is finished, but in reality it is not so.Many more things have to be done before it is finished.

Thank you in advance
  

Top answer

In my opinion, you have a tense problem. When you use a perfect tense, it means the action has been completed. You can't then say that it hasn't.

— Avangi

  • In my opinion, you have a tense problem.
  • When you use a perfect tense, it means the action has been completed.
  • You can't then say that it hasn't.
  • Whether or not a person has registered is a matter of fact, not of opinion.
  • He may say he has registered, or think he has registered, and be lying or mistaken.
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In my opinion, you have a tense problem. When you use a perfect tense, it means the action has been completed. You can't then say that it hasn't. Whether or not a person has registered is a matter of fact, not of opinion. He may say he has registered, or think he has registered, and be lying or mistaken. But that doesn't work in your case, because yo
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Thank you Avangi very much.
But can I say like this" They simply think their registering for the training course is finished..."?
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Sure. That works fine. In this case, you're not actually dealing with a verb tense. "Registering" is just a "verbal." (The gang probably won't let me analyze it that way.) I think you could say it's a gerund, serving as direct object of the verb "think" and being modified by the prepositional phrase "for the training course"; or maybe you could say "registering for the training course" is a p
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Tuongvan their having registered for the training course is finished
I'm beginning to realize I've been wrong about this clause. Geez, there's no perfect tense here. I continue in my objection to the error in contextual time factor logic, however. "Having registered" is the subject of the clause. "Having registered" is a completed action, no matter how you
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