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Hans51 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
'Survived People and Missed Child'
While I was wondering why 'survived' and 'missed' are not possible like in survived people and missed child', I fell into confusion. In my language, they are interpreted as a passive meaning. And when I looked up the word 'surviving' in the dictionary, it was like below
Surviving
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/continue to http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/live or http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/exist:
Survive
to http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/continue to http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/live_1 after http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/almost http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/dying because of an http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/accident,http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/illness, etc.
And then I was wondering if the form of continuing is a progressive form or gerund there? I think that 'to be' is omitted so it is a progressive form.
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual!
Surviving
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/continue to http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/live or http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/exist:
Survive
to http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/continue to http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/live_1 after http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/almost http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/dying because of an http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/accident,http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-korean/illness, etc.
And then I was wondering if the form of continuing is a progressive form or gerund there? I think that 'to be' is omitted so it is a progressive form.
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual!
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Hans51 In my language, they are interpreted as a passive meaning. In English, both "survive" and "miss" are used in an active sense in the contexts you describe. "Many people survived the fire.
- Hans51 In my language, they are interpreted as a passive meaning.
- In English, both "survive" and "miss" are used in an active sense in the contexts you describe.
- "Many people survived the fire.
- " Hans51 And then I was wondering if the form of continuing is a progressive form or gerund there?
- I think that 'to be' is omitted so it is a progressive form.
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Hans51In my language, they are interpreted as a passive meaning.In English, both "survive" and "miss" are used in an active sense in the contexts you describe.
"Many people survived the fire.
"The surviving people were airlifted to hospital."
"A young child went missing last week."
"The missing child was la
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teechrIt is a present progressive form.I'd say it's a (present) participle.
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