Timeline for the verb "shock" + participle phrase
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 24, 2018 at 5:56 | comment | added | BillJ | The verb "shock" licenses (specifically permits) infinitival clauses as complement, but not gerund-participial ones, so only "shocked to discover ..." is possible. | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 5:49 | answer | added | Beqa | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 5:35 | comment | added | Kris | "I went out for a walk having finished my homework" will work. | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 5:34 | history | edited | Kris |
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| Apr 24, 2018 at 4:52 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | The issue of participle phrases aside, neither the use of discovering nor of finishing are correct. They should be, respectively, something like "We were shocked upon discovering" and "I went out for a walk after finishing my homework." | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 4:29 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 24, 2018 at 4:27 | history | asked | lsj9929 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |