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freshair313
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 Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:48 am Post subject: Why there are two verbs in a sentence? |
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Dear sir/madam,
Why there are two verbs in a sentence? The sentence is as follows.
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| The teacher, for his part, frequently reduced to trying to explain the inexplicable, may take refuge in quoting proverbs to his colleagues such as ... |
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CP
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:30 am Post subject: |
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The first verb is there to say, "The teacher, who is reduced to trying to explain the inexplicable, . . . ." The bare sentence is just, "The teacher may take refuge in quoting proverbs."
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