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Alc24 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Please help me correct 3 sentence?

Are the tenses correct?
He's been playing well considering he was injured a week ago.

Is there anything wrong with the sentence please?
I don't know when you intended on arriving at work, but hurry up.

Sleeping or asleep
I don't mind him seeing my asleep/sleeping.

Thank you
  

Top answer

I don't mind him/his seeing me asleep/sleeping. The others are fine.

— Mister Micawber

  • I don't mind him/his seeing me asleep/sleeping.
  • The others are fine.
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I don't mind him/his seeing me asleep/sleeping.

The others are fine.
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He's been playing well considering he was injured a week ago. OK.
I don't know when you intend or intended on arriving at work, but hurry up. Both are possible.
I don't mind him seeing my sleeping. Correct, but awkward.
I don't mind if
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alc24I don't know when you intended on arriving at work, but hurry up.
That one sounds strange in BrE, but is clearly fine in AmE. The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 79 citations for INTEND + on; the British National Corpus has only four.
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fivejedjonThat one sounds strange in BrE, but is clearly fine in AmE. The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 79 citations for INTEND + on; the British National Corpus has only four.
AmE (my experience):

intend on verb-ing
intend to verb
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