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Red train 520 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Tense in this phrase?

Paying for shipping

Or I didn’t understand something, or the task is wrong, because before 'paying' there is no auxiliary verb, but I need to identify the tense.

  

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red train 520 Paying for shipping Or I didn’t understand something, or the task is wrong, because before 'paying' there is no auxiliary verb, but I need to identify the tense. Please be a little more clear with the context. I don't know what your question is.

  • red train 520 Paying for shipping Or I didn’t understand something, or the task is wrong, because before 'paying' there is no auxiliary verb, but I need to identify the tense.
  • Please be a little more clear with the context.
  • I don't know what your question is.
  • Paying for shipping is a noun phrase but why do you think it needs an auxiliary word?
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red train 520

Paying for shipping

Or I didn’t understand something, or the task is wrong, because before 'paying' there is no auxiliary verb, but I need to identify the tense.

Please be a little more clear with the context. I don't know what your question is. Paying for shipping is a noun phrase but why do you think it needs an aux

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red train 520before 'paying' there is no auxiliary verb, but I need to identify the tense.

That's an impossible task, as you are well aware. Participles (like paying) cannot form tenses without auxiliary verbs.

You are correct to think that the task is badly stated.

CJ

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