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Marrion
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 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:20 pm Post subject: About "after + -ing" |
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An 11-yare-old boy called James became a vegetarian about seven months ago after accidentally finding a website about factory farming on the Internet.
At this sentence, is "finding" "a gerund" or "a participle" ?
In other words, is "after" "a preposition", "a conjunction" ? |
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Suzanne
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:35 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
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| An 11-yare-old boy called James became a vegetarian about seven months ago after accidentally finding a website about factory farming on the Internet. |
"After" is a preposition, and fidning" is an object ferund.
I would write it this way:
"An 11 year-old boy, called James, became a vegetarian about seven moths ago, after accidentally finding an Internet website about factory farming."
Does this help? |
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Marrion
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: I got it. |
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I got it perfectly.
Thank you very much.
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