Well, here is your new task. This test is mostly on the nonfinite forms, but there are also some other mistakes. So, be attentive, please! You know what to do.
- You know English enough well so that you can write great blogs.
- My suit wanted to clean, so I went to the cleaner’s to remove the stain.
- Here my friend is coming whom I know since childhood.
- The first thing we should do was finding the place to stay not long.
- Coming in the room he saw lying on the table letter.
- Being read the story, we couldn’t help to laugh.
- I always leave my laboratory last.
- I knew my wife doesn’t approve that I work much.
- Sleeping for few hours, I felt refresh and decided posting this blog.
- After having been accused in all dead sins, even I don’t know whether posting this blog.
The deadline is the next Moday, April 3.
Have a nice week!
April 3
My friends, here are the correct sentences together with my explanations.
- You know English well enough to (be able to) write great blogs.
- My suit wanted cleaning, so I went to the cleaner’s to have/get the stain removed.
- Here comes my friend whom I have known since my childhood.
- The first thing for us to do was to find the place to stay not for long.
- Having come/After coming into the room he saw a letter lying on the table.
- Reading the story, we couldn’t help laughing.
- I am always the last to leave my laboratory.
- I knew/know my wife didn’t/doesn’t approve of my working much.
- After sleeping/Having slept for a few hours, I felt refreshed and decided to post this blog.
- Having been accused of all the deadly sins, I don’t even know whether to post this blog (or not).
Well, most of the sentences have already been explained in the separate blogs. So, I will explain only some constructions and details.
3. Honestly, I was really surprised you didn’t know what to do with it. I believe you all heard “Here is your coffee, here is your drink” and so on. It is the same structure. It is one of the inverted constructions with the full inversion like “There is, There lived..”, where we just transpose a subject and a verb. In this case, a verb is not used in the progressive tenses.
7. If we use some ordinals or adjectives like LAST, NEXT meaning the sequence of actions, we use the following infinitive construction:
A subject + TO BE as a predicate+ the ordinal + the infinitive +……
For example:
You are the next to answer.
He is always the first to greet our newbies.
8. TO APPROVE must be followed by OF and the gerund/noun. If the gerund defines an action of a person different from the subject, this person must be mentioned before the gerund in the possessive form. For example:
I disapprove of my daughter’s coming home so late.
I would appreciate your informing me about the results.
9. TO DECIDE must be followed by the infinitive.
10. TO ACCUSE must be followed by the preposition OF and the gerund or the noun. What doesn’t live can’t be DEAD. We say DEADLY/MORTAL sins. EVEN is an adverb, its place is inside the compound predicate or before the verb if it is in the simple form.
Sure, you can ask me your questions, but I will be really happy if you read my explanatory blogs and practice there.
Thanks everyone for taking part!
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My friens, here are the correct sentences together with my explanations.
Well, most of the sentences have already been explained in the separate blogs. So, I will explain only some constructions and details.
3. Honestly, I was really surprised you didn’t know what to do with it. I believe you all heard “Here is your coffee, here is your drink” and so on. It is the same structure. It is one of the inverted constructions with the full inversion like “There is, There lived..”, where we just transpose a subject and a verb. In this case, a verb is not used in the progressive tenses.
7. If we use some ordinals or adjectives like LAST, NEXT meaning the sequence of actions, we use the following infinitive construction:
A subject + TO BE as a predicate+ the ordinal + the infinitive +……
For example:
You are the next to answer.
He is always the first to greet our newbies.
8. TO APPROVE must be followed by OF and the gerund/noun. If the gerund defines an action of a person different from the subject, this person must be mentioned before the gerund in the possessive form. For example:
I disapprove of my daughter’s coming home so late.
I would appreciate your informing me about the results.
9. TO DECIDE must be followed by the infinitive.
10. TO ACCUSE must be followed by the preposition OF and the gerund or the noun. What doesn’t live can’t be DEAD. We say DEADLY/MORTAL sins. EVEN is an adverb, its place is inside the compound predicate or before the verb if it is in the simple form.
Sure, you can ask me your questions, but I will be really happy if you read my explanatory blogs and practice there.
Thanks everyone for taking part!
Dear Elen, it is correct now. Thank you!
Oh yes, it was about future... I still confuse many things :/ Anyway...
5. Having come into the room he saw a letter lying on the table.
Dear Bet, I can surely give such an example using a transitive verb.
Having been corrected for many times, the sentence was still wrong.
Having been served dinner, the committy went on working.
Anyway happy sunday.
Dear Elen, your sentences are correct now. As to 6, on the previous test we had to use it in the future tense, but CAN is not used speaking about future ability. That is why we perlaced the idiom by its meaning.
Dear Bet, HAVING BEEN SLEPT is incorrect, it is the passive form
Hello Danny, well, I really try to remember what I learn from you :)
In sentence 3, yes yes, it is very common to say this phrase, but I didn’t get it from the beginning :/
In sentence 6, I thought we should replace CAN’T HELP with its meaning as we did in the previous test.
3. Here comes my friend whom I have known since my childhood.
7. I am always the last to leave my laboratory.
8. I knew my wife didn’t approve of my working much.
Let me think about sentence 5 a little more :)
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