Timeline for Present and past participle in same sentence
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Aug 6 at 4:01 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | If nothing else, one could argue that the solutions are designed before they are built, resolving the tense problem. | |
Aug 6 at 1:29 | answer | added | Andy T | timeline score: 0 | |
Jul 26, 2012 at 17:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/228537701962506241 | ||
Jul 26, 2012 at 13:49 | comment | added | Noah | @tchrist- I thought participles were not acting as verbs. Thanks for clearing that up. | |
Jul 26, 2012 at 13:40 | vote | accept | martincho | ||
Jul 26, 2012 at 13:34 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @Noah Sure it is. It just isn’t a finite one. Participles, gerunds, and infinitives can all introduce verbal phrases in English, which makes them verbs, verbs that just happen to function as substantives or modifiers. Consider: “Finishing it early is what makes me happiest”; the direct object of finishing is it, and only verbs have direct objects, so finishing is without question a verb. It is also acting as a substantive here. You can do the same with the other non-finite forms. | |
Jul 26, 2012 at 13:29 | comment | added | Noah | Designed is not acting as a verb. | |
Jul 26, 2012 at 13:25 | answer | added | Barrie England | timeline score: 5 | |
Jul 26, 2012 at 13:11 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 10 | |
Jul 26, 2012 at 13:08 | history | asked | martincho | CC BY-SA 3.0 |