But this is really from Parallelism.The Manhattan SC said that these two sides are not ctructurally parallel.In order to achieve parallelism, we can rewrite the sentence replacing giving with the noun gift,so that the two sides of the being verb are structurally similar:The flower bouquet was the hu...

hehe~~ O(∩_∩)O~~Thanks for your help.I learned so much from the discussion. I think I am little out of Sync with the ongoing discussion :) Anyways, MinnieLiu I would like to convey some rules: - "which" generally modifies the nearest legitimate Noun - "which" is used to intro...

I don't know the differences between the three sentence. 1.we finally returned all the books that we left at the front desk to the library. 2.We returned those books, which we left at the front desk, to the library. 3.we left the books, (which we had) at the front desk of the library. They express t...

@theCodeToGMAT,Umm..I see.The word that is better than which for important part.But the given answer is "We finally returned all the books, leaving them at the library's front desk." Are both of them correct? And in the given answer,"leaving them at the library's front desk" is a...

I probably know the meaning now,there is a word that omitted after the word tell ,right? MinnieLiu, if you change the sentence to: Samantha's face looked blurry in the photo, but I could tell Samantha not to smile. - the second clause "i could..smile" has gone awkward.. - Also, the meaning...

"tell sb be doing" construction is right??

from Manhanten SC:
Samantha's face looked blurry in the photo,but I could tell Samantha wasn't smiling.
In my opinion,correct the sentence like this:
but I could tell Samantha not to smile.
So,is there anyone could tell me why the first construction is right?