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[Jerry Chen]

Hello,


As the sentence says, "We can't catch the train even if we run."

Is it grammatical to say "We can't catch the train even if running."?

Thanks for your reply!

[eslRC]

This sentence does NOT work well: "We can't catch the train even if running."?

You can say, however: "We can't catch the train even if we start running."

[lotus]

Hi Jerry,

Try:

We couldn't catch the train even if we ran.


--lotus