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?
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