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Verb+adjective into adverb+adjective
Can verb+adjective complement be freely inverted into adverb+adjective?
For example:
Something seems beautiful.
It’s something seemingly beautiful.
Something looks special.
It’s something visually ...
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When is a complement of verb gerund?
I am confused about when a complement of a verb is a gerund.
For instance
He is going to school.
here "going" is the complement of verb "is" yet not a gerund
He is playing for ...
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Use to or Used to exercises , help me complete the sentence
When we were children, we ____________________ collect stamps.
Mr. Wood ______________ read at leat four hours a day when he was young.
John __________________ walk to school in the ...
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Complements: -ing form or infinitives
Not sure if this was already discussed, but I am confused about the use of -ing form/infinitives as complements. I've found in several threads in Stack Exchange that the verb "to be" has to be ...
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Why use verb-ing in this sentence?
Take a look on this sentence.
Today 71 years ago US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima killing over 1000000
Why in this sentence it uses killing, is it a noun and "Hiroshima killing over 1000000" ...
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What's the difference: We had hoped 'to live/to be living' in our new house by now...
We had hoped to live/to be living in our new house by now, but the builders are still working on it.
UPDATED: I mean what is semantically the difference between to live and to be living there?
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