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Eric Kim Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

represented vs representing

Hi! I'm a high school student from South Korea. While I was solving an English comprehension question in class, my teacher pointed out something strange in a sentence.
The sentence is "They had the players look at a poster with a variety of circles on it and asked them to indicate the circle they felt best represented the size of a softball."
My teacher said that the word "represented" is not used appropriately in this sentence. He told me that it should be used as "representing."
Can anyone tell me if the given sentence is correct or not?
If it is correct, can you please explain why it is gramatically correct?
  

Top answer

" The sentence is correct. Represented is correct. If we take out the unnecessary distractions, the noun phrase is: The circle that (best) represented the size of a softball.

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  • " The sentence is correct.
  • Represented is correct.
  • If we take out the unnecessary distractions, the noun phrase is: The circle that (best) represented the size of a softball.
  • " It is past tense, not the past participle.
  • The relative pronoun "that" can be omitted in many relative clauses.
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They had the players look at a poster with a variety of circles on it and asked them to indicate the circle they felt best represented the size of a softball."
The sentence is correct.

Represented is correct.

If we take out the unnecessary distractions, the noun phrase is:
The circle that (best) represented the size of a softball.
The main verb in the relativ
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