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skullpatrol
skullpatrol
02:59
Any word that is used that often is going to be important for ESL/EFL learners.
tag:of-phrases
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Word of the day: van (wing)
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> He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain;
His vans no longer could his flight sustain.
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
in-of
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
04:02
@Man_From_India "The first thing I'm going to do is killing your daughter," is certainly not correct. Use the bare infinitive after "do", not the gerund. — Andrew 1 hour ago
Have anyone heard about "killing" there?
I mean whether using"killing" there is correct.
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Using "killing" there doesn't sound "natural" at all, but in conversation you could get away with it, I guess.
I have heard it used by nonnative speakers that way.
I think a nonnative speaker believes that putting -ing on the end of "kill" gives more action to the sentence, but it doesn't grammatically work that way :-)
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
04:23
@skullpatrol hmmm that may be the reason. Are you AmE or BrE speaker?
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
I'm kind of in between.
Man_From_India
Man_From_India
04:47
:O
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
:-)
 
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ColleenV
ColleenV
22:29
@Man_From_India I think folks try to match "going". "The first thing I will do is kill your daughter..." probably would be less confusing even though it's almost the same thing. "I'm going to eat dinner, take a bath, and then go to bed." No native speaker would say "I'm going to eating dinner, taking a bath, and then going to bed."
I suppose we could say "I'm going to BE eating dinner, taking a bath and going to sleep." but then I'd be eating and sleeping in the bath....

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