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OttoJ Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Undergo
-Russian news confirmed the blaze broke out in wooden scaffolding surrounding the tower as it undergoes restoration.
Do you think 'undergoes' is a slip and it is wrong, and it has to be 'underwent'? 'Broke' shows the event to be in the past, 'as' means 'at the time of'/'when', etc.; then 'undergoes' should be wrong. But I've seen this several times at least, so I'm not sure whether my argument has correct.(even if the restoration of it is ongoing, the sentence has nothing to do with the present, so its present state can't be used to justify the use of the simple present tense.)
Do you think 'undergoes' is a slip and it is wrong, and it has to be 'underwent'? 'Broke' shows the event to be in the past, 'as' means 'at the time of'/'when', etc.; then 'undergoes' should be wrong. But I've seen this several times at least, so I'm not sure whether my argument has correct.(even if the restoration of it is ongoing, the sentence has nothing to do with the present, so its present state can't be used to justify the use of the simple present tense.)
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OttoJ Do you think 'undergoes' is a slip and it is wrong, and it has to be 'underwent'? No; it is still undergoing restoration—in fact, even more than originally planned.
- OttoJ Do you think 'undergoes' is a slip and it is wrong, and it has to be 'underwent'?
- No; it is still undergoing restoration—in fact, even more than originally planned.
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OttoJDo you think 'undergoes' is a slip and it is wrong, and it has to be 'underwent'?No; it is still undergoing restoration—in fact, even more than originally planned.
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The wooden scaffolding surrounds the tower; the tower is being restored; - these are on-going facts. The participle clause is related to these, not the past-time event of the fire.
(Cross-posted with MrM)
(Cross-posted with MrM)
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um...then why does Woolf say this?
-And as happens sometimes when the weather is very fine, the cliff looked as if they were conscious of the ships, [...](280)
It seems some grammatical disagreement has occurred; do you agree?
-And as happens sometimes when the weather is very fine, the cliff looked as if they were conscious of the ships, [...](280)
It seems some grammatical disagreement has occurred; do you agree?
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No.
It looked in the past as if the cliff were conscious of the ships. This phenomenon sometimes (past, present and future) occurs when the weather is very fine.
It looked in the past as if the cliff were conscious of the ships. This phenomenon sometimes (past, present and future) occurs when the weather is very fine.
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