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Present Participle vs Present progressive

by voodoo_child » Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:10 am
Beanie Todd, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narrations, capitalized on her ....

OG says that "use of the present progressive form of the verb confuses the sequence of time with respect to the past tense of the main verb capitalized"...My question is that.....

"coordinating" is present participle and "capitalized" is past tense or (past participle ??? not sure.I think it's past tense)..... Why is OG saying "present progressive form of the verb confuses the sequence of time with respect to the past tense of the main verb"....???

CAn anyone please help me ?

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by atulmangal » Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:22 am
voodoo_child wrote:Beanie Todd, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narrations, capitalized on her ....

OG says that "use of the present progressive form of the verb confuses the sequence of time with respect to the past tense of the main verb capitalized"...My question is that.....

"coordinating" is present participle and "capitalized" is past tense or (past participle ??? not sure.I think it's past tense)..... Why is OG saying "present progressive form of the verb confuses the sequence of time with respect to the past tense of the main verb"....???

CAn anyone please help me ?

Thanks
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Please mention the question no, i would like to check this thing...thanks
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by voodoo_child » Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:04 am
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by atulmangal » Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:42 am
voodoo_child wrote:Q 105
I checked the explanation in OG...i agree with the modifier issue...but present progressive form and tense things seems weired, as i think we are not using present progressive as a verb form for that it should be followed by is/are...its just acting as a modifier...but as Ron says we should not cast doubt on OG so please pm some expert and ask him to clarify the OG explanation...

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