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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Shane O'Rourke
In 2003, historian Shane O'Rourke announced finding documentary evidence that the Soviets had issued orders for exterminating the Cossacks, and that "ten thousand Cossacks were slaughtered systematically in a few weeks in January 1919."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossacks#cite_note-Extermination_order-87
I'd like to know if all transitive verbs, except for the verbs taking exclusively to-infinitive as the object, can take gerund phrase as the object? a transitive verb + ~ing + something.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I'd like to know if all transitive verbs, except for the verbs taking exclusively to-infinitive as the object, can take gerund phrase as the object? a transitive verb + ~ing + something.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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The great majority of transitive verbs do not allow this pattern. A few work well; for example "I like eating chocolate" or "I began sifting the evidence". The example you cite does not read very well in my opinion.
- The great majority of transitive verbs do not allow this pattern.
- A few work well; for example "I like eating chocolate" or "I began sifting the evidence".
- The example you cite does not read very well in my opinion.
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The great majority of transitive verbs do not allow this pattern. A few work well; for example "I like eating chocolate" or "I began sifting the evidence". The example you cite does not read very well in my opinion.
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