Timeline for What tense of the word sing completes the sentence below appropriately?
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| May 30 at 11:20 | comment | added | James Mathai | 1. In the first case, both are non finite verbs. sing = bare infinitive, singing = present participle 2. In the second case, both are finite verbs. | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 1:40 | comment | added | Josh | I'll also add that "sung" also results in a grammatically correct sentence if you interpret "Esther" to be the name of a song, as in: "She said that heard 'Esther' [being] sung." (Though of course one would normally put quote marks around it in such a case.) | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 18:36 | history | answered | JavaLatte | CC BY-SA 3.0 |