Tyrannosaurus description "It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever i

Çeşitli İngilizce öğretmenleri arasından arama yapın...

Евгений (Eugene)

Profesyonel Öğretmen

Tyrannosaurus description "It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight." Where is the verb here? Why is it skipped? If I wrote this description I would have said: It ran, AS its pelvic bones WERE crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet WERE clawing damp earth, WERE leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight." Thank you!:)

26 Tem 2018 18:43

Yanıtlar · 6

The phrases you have added extra verbs to are called 'present participle phrases'; they have no main verb because they qualify the main verb 'ran'. Adding verbs to these phrases is not replacing something missing, it simply means you are splitting a single sentence into multiple shorter sentences: Sara is correct that this is a different style, but it is also grammatically different.

26 Temmuz 2018

I'd say it's a matter of style. The 'were' is already implied and it makes the description more emphatic, realistic, and sort of poetic if we omit it.

26 Temmuz 2018

Hâlâ cevap bulamadın mı?

Sorularını yaz ve ana dil konuşanlar sana yardım etsin!