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Unit16The–ing&-edparticiples
contentsCheckingyourunderstandingofthissectionKeypointsforyourintensivereadingofthetext
CheckingyourunderstandingTrueorfalse?Ifthe–ingformhasalogicalsubjectofitsown,itmustbeexpressedonewayoranother.TFTSuchverbsas“attempt,begin,acknowledge,appreciate,defer”canbefollowedeitherbyan–ingformorbyaninfinitive.Aspremodifierinanounphrase,-edparticiplesaremostlyderivedfromtransitiveverbs;onlyafewcomefromintransitiveverbs.
InmodernEnglish,thereareafewrelicsofOldEnglish–edparticiplesthatsurviveonlyasadjectivesandwhicharemostlydifferentinformfromtheirModern–edparticiples.TTLinguistsaredividedinopinionabouttheacceptabilityof“danglingparticiples”:prescriptivegrammarianscondemnall“danglingconstructions”,whiledescriptivelinguiststakeamoreliberalpointofview.
Theso-called“danglingconstructions”arefrequentlyfoundininformalstyle,inwhichitisgeneraltoavoidusingpersonalsubjects.F
Collocationof–ingparticiplewithverbsAcceptableornot?Andwhy?Thesewerethepeoplewhoadvocatedtouseforcetostopabortion.Wemustpreventthetroublespreading.Thetroublemustbepreventedspreading.UAU
Whichisbetter?Andwhy?Ican"tbear___(tosee/seeing)hercry.Thisletterneeds___(tobesigned/signing)bythemanager.Shebegan___(tobelieve/believing)hisstory.
Whichiscorrect?Andywhy?Ididn’tmean___(toeat/eating)anythingbutthecakeslookedsogoodthatIcouldn’tresist___(totry/trying)one.Frank"ssurgeryresidencymeans___(tostay/staying)inAlbuquerqueanotherfiveyears.
Whichisbetter?Andwhy?Hefollowedinhisownlimousine--thendrovethePanhardafewhundredyardstothe___(finishing/finished)line.The___(falling/fallen)snowwasfrozenhard.
Isthiscorrect?AlloftheotherversionsofthehealthcarelegislationadvancinginCongress—abillapprovedbytheSenatehealthcommitteeandatrioofbillsintheHouse—includesomeversionofthegovernment-runplan,orpublicoption.(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/health/policy/30health.html?_r=1&hp)Advanceisnotusedinthesenseof“propose”,thusthenonfiniteformofitisacceptable.
confusingvs.confused
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AssignmentGiveanintensivereadingtoChapter32.Finishdoingthecorrespondingexercises.