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Belly Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Several grammar questions
1)
"[...] the pits moving, accompanying their words by and up and down movement of the hand[...]. After understanding that, I accepted the true meaning of the words: ‘ The pit took three days to die...'"
Is the paragraph above correct? If not, how can I fix it?
2 What does it mean by this:
Sally: The next time you tell me to screw off- get ready to drop!
3) The earth is becoming heavily and is turning worse as days go by
Do we need to repeat the "is" to make parallel structure? Can we just write "is" once and only repeat the gerund?
4) How do we pronounce the 'g' sound, gel vs gay?
Thanks in advance
"[...] the pits moving, accompanying their words by and up and down movement of the hand[...]. After understanding that, I accepted the true meaning of the words: ‘ The pit took three days to die...'"
Is the paragraph above correct? If not, how can I fix it?
2 What does it mean by this:
Sally: The next time you tell me to screw off- get ready to drop!
3) The earth is becoming heavily and is turning worse as days go by
Do we need to repeat the "is" to make parallel structure? Can we just write "is" once and only repeat the gerund?
4) How do we pronounce the 'g' sound, gel vs gay?
Thanks in advance
Top answer
Belly (1) & (2) are much too depressing for my gentle sensibilities 3) The earth is becoming heavily and is turning worse as days go by Do we need to repeat the "is" to make parallel structure? Can we just write "is" once and only repeat the gerund? The earth is becoming old and turning worse is fine.
- Belly (1) & (2) are much too depressing for my gentle sensibilities 3) The earth is becoming heavily and is turning worse as days go by Do we need to repeat the "is" to make parallel structure?
- Can we just write "is" once and only repeat the gerund?
- The earth is becoming old and turning worse is fine.
- These are not gerunds.
- These are present participles used in the formation of the present continuous tense.
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Belly (1) & (2) are much too depressing for my gentle sensibilities
3) The earth is becoming heavily and is turning worse as days go by
Do we need to repeat the "is" to make parallel structure? Can we just write "is" once and only repeat the gerund?
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Edit.
In beginning the hard G, the throat is closed by the tongue sealing against the roof of the mouth at the back.
In beginning the hard G, the throat is closed by the tongue sealing against the roof of the mouth at the back.
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Hi,
sorry it's a lil bit convoluted at #1, so here is another way to put it:
that is the excerpt from one of my essays. In the story, the character said: " The pit took three days to die...", alright?
And because I quoted a part of the story, I also quoted what the speaker said.And that speaker (main character) has a quotation mark for what he says in the story. My question is: Is i
sorry it's a lil bit convoluted at #1, so here is another way to put it:
that is the excerpt from one of my essays. In the story, the character said: " The pit took three days to die...", alright?
And because I quoted a part of the story, I also quoted what the speaker said.And that speaker (main character) has a quotation mark for what he says in the story. My question is: Is i
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If you're talking about nested quotes, they're quite common, and may go as deep as you like. It works the same way in algebra and in early computer languages.
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