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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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I recently encountered the following sentence in a research paper I was reviewing:"[the signal] was not longer present despite the animal executed the same movements in the two task conditions."Which I corrected to this:"[the signal] was no longer present despite the animal executing the same movements in the two task conditions."Afterwards, I realized that I don't really know how to describe the structure of the sentence.Specifically, I was curious to know if "executing" is in the past participle form (under the "parallel actions" case); that's what I think, but I'm quite uncertain.Thanks for any help on this!Jerónimo
  

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Anonymous despite "despite" is used thus: despite the fact that My version would have been like this: ... was no longer present despite the fact that the animal executed the same movements under both conditions. Anonymous I was curious to know if "executing" is in the past participle form No.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous despite "despite" is used thus: despite the fact that My version would have been like this: ...
  • was no longer present despite the fact that the animal executed the same movements under both conditions.
  • Anonymous I was curious to know if "executing" is in the past participle form No.
  • You have a gerund there.
  • CJ
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Anonymousdespite
"despite" is used thus: despite the fact that

My version would have been like this:
... was no longer present despite the fact that the animal executed the same movements under both conditions.
AnonymousI was curious to know if "executing" is in the past participle form
No. You h
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If the sense here is: "The signal was no longer present despite the animal executing the same movements in the two task conditions.", then your correction is right.

However, this sounds a little unusual. Could it be that the sense is, instead: "The signal was no longer present. Despite this the animal executed the same movements in the two task conditions." ?
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