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Onizo Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Pretending skating

Were you pretending skating?

Is this correct?
  

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No. You can say "Were you pretending to skate?"
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Thank you.

Do you think you can try to explain your mental image of pretending skating? What a distorted imaged is created that this is incorrect? Is it the time frame, motion; what is it?
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onizoDo you think you can try to explain your mental image of pretending skating?
It feels ungrammatical.

It could be analysed as an attempt to use "pretend" as a transitive verb with object "skating". Transitive "pretend", in the pattern "verb + noun object", is unusual, and only works in certain cases (Oxford Dictionaries gives the example "she pret

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