@userr2684291 dan was saying what if we removed "of" - "Harry imagined coming here with Dumbledore, what bond it would have been, how much it would have meant to him"
While removing the "of" makes sense as "imagined of" is quite unnatural, doing so makes it hard to read the second thought as Harry's imagination.
What do you think? Even without the "of" the sentence is a bit off. No parallelism between the elements.
For some reason I'd expect to see ands instead of ofs there: Harry imagined coming here with Dumbledore, and what a bond it would've been, and how much it would've meant to him. I'm not too happy with that solution, however. I don't know. Maybe of works there.
Can we summarize the various uses of Verb+ed in the English sentence, as it is used to describe completed actions in Present, Past and future,
Whether verb+ed is used as past tense or past participle.
e.g. I have used Verb Cleaned in various sentences to understand completed action.
a) Xyz Cl...
That's Olli, I gave the book to her as a gift. The book is in English, with a parallel translation in Russian to make it easier to read, and it's adapted - the hard words are replaced with simpler ones.
It's my first question about my English, I usually use basic world and structure for ask some technique question for other stackoverflown users but i never can use true structure or grammar.
I really wanna improve write and read skill i tried many many way but still same.
I'm open any type of ...
Can we summarize the various uses of Verb+ed in the English sentence, as it is used to describe completed actions in Present, Past and future,
Whether verb+ed is used as past tense or past participle.
e.g. I have used Verb Cleaned in various sentences to understand completed action.
a) Xyz Cl...
It's my first question about my English, I usually use basic world and structure for ask some technique question for other stackoverflown users but i never can use true structure or grammar.
I really wanna improve write and read skill i tried many many way but still same.
I'm open any type of ...
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