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1. Looking through the window I saw him traverse the garden.
(Change the sentence above↑ to below↓)
When I was looking through the window I saw him traverse the garden.
2. Arriving at the airport she found a lot of people waiting for the security check.
(Change the sentence above↑ to below↓)
When she arrived at the airport,she found a lot of people were waiting for the security check.
↑The beginning of the two sentences is present participle, but after changing participles to verbs, the tense forms of the two verbs(was looking through、arrived at) are different. why?
Oct 22, 2024 3:16 PM
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Language Skills
Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese
Learning Language
Japanese
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