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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Verbs fallowed by V+ing
Hi everone,
I am confused about these two sentences. Actually, I couldn't understand this grammatical structure , :
1) We sat drinking and smoking
2) A women woke up thinking she was teenager again ( a news that I read in BBC )
In first sentence, I think it must be " While we were drinking and smoking , we sat "
And in second one , in my opinion,, it must have a come between woke up and thinking ; A women woke up, thinking she was teenager again.
So could you please tell me the difference ? Am thinking that there is a reduction. If so, could you please tell me how did the reduce the sentence - by writing original form. ?
Thank you
I am confused about these two sentences. Actually, I couldn't understand this grammatical structure , :
1) We sat drinking and smoking
2) A women woke up thinking she was teenager again ( a news that I read in BBC )
In first sentence, I think it must be " While we were drinking and smoking , we sat "
And in second one , in my opinion,, it must have a come between woke up and thinking ; A women woke up, thinking she was teenager again.
So could you please tell me the difference ? Am thinking that there is a reduction. If so, could you please tell me how did the reduce the sentence - by writing original form. ?
Thank you
Top answer
Anonymous In first sentence, I think it must be " While we were drinking and smoking , we sat " More like: We drank and smoked while seated . Anonymous it must have a come comma between woke up and thinking Some writers leave it out; others put it in. Anonymous A women woke up thinking she was teenager again At the time she woke up, the woman thought she was a teenager again.
- Anonymous In first sentence, I think it must be " While we were drinking and smoking , we sat " More like: We drank and smoked while seated .
- Anonymous it must have a come comma between woke up and thinking Some writers leave it out; others put it in.
- Anonymous A women woke up thinking she was teenager again At the time she woke up, the woman thought she was a teenager again.
- You can sometimes rephrase these with the information in the -ing clause in the main clause and the information in the main clause in a subordinate clause.
- CJ
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AnonymousIn first sentence, I think it must be " While we were drinking and smoking , we sat "More like: We drank and smoked while seated.
Anonymousit must have aSome writers leave it out; others put it in.comecomma between woke up and thinking
Anony
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