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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Sentence analysis about a news article

This is a quote from a article I read:

Did someone really believe woman would be enticed to go to a boutique that had recent billboards depict a dead woman impaled on a metal fence?

I know it is right, but why is it used instead of my re-write? Difference please?



Did someone really believe woman would be enticed to go to a boutique that had recent billboards depicting a dead woman impaled on a metal fence.





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Top answer

e what was intended), but it is possible. '), it is very odd, since we cannot coerce a billboard. Nor do the boutiques themselves usually erect billboards; it is normally the headquarters of a chain of boutiques that does this.

— Mister Micawber

  • e what was intended), but it is possible.
  • '), it is very odd, since we cannot coerce a billboard.
  • Nor do the boutiques themselves usually erect billboards; it is normally the headquarters of a chain of boutiques that does this.
  • I think what was intended was 'depicting'; it is a typographical error.
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I don't think the original is right (i.e what was intended), but it is possible. (Note that 'woman' here is also wrong; it should read either 'a woman' or 'women'.) Although the grammar of 'depict' is correct ('a boutique had billboards depict...'), it is very odd, since we cannot coerce a billboard. Nor do the boutiques themselves usually erect billboards; it is normally the headquarters of a
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We had them run around the field twice.

I'm thinking quite often the form without the ing is used--instead of the ing form.

So is it definitely incorrect in my original sentence in the first post?

P.s. it may have been 'women' in the artcile. I may have copied it wrong
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I do not have time to get into all the ramifications here, but yes, I think it is incorrect in the original. The two forms do not mean the same.

I had them run = I arranged for them to run.
I had them running = I forced/caused them to run.

A boutique had billboards depict = arranged for them to depict
A boutique had billboards depicting = possessed billboards which d
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