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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Present contiuous tense and punctuation

Please advise if the usage of present continuous tense in the following sentences correct:

There are two children watching television programmes.

Please advise if the punctuation for the following sentence is acceptable:

Two children are watching television programmes, two children are playing chess and one children is reading.
  

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There are two children watching television programmes. -- OK Two children are watching television programmes, two children are playing chess and one child is reading. g.

— Mr Wordy

  • There are two children watching television programmes.
  • -- OK Two children are watching television programmes, two children are playing chess and one child is reading.
  • g.
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There are two children watching television programmes. -- OK

Two children are watching television programmes, two children are playing chess and one child is reading. -- Punctuation is OK (a comma after "chess" is optional; see e.g. ).
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