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Anonymous  #409256  Sat, 25 Aug 07 01:48 PM

à I need some corrections in these sentences. The first two ones are from a grammar book but the book gave the simple gerund as an answer and I think that without context my option could be right:

 

He denied having been driving (driving) so fast.

 

He denied having broken (breaking) into the shop.

 

Which is the difference between both options? Are both rights?

 

à What would you say: to leap into/ to. I wrote in a writing: “with this novel the author leaps to adult narrative” and the thing is that I handed out this piece of writing two times and the teacher corrected just in one of them writing leap into instead of leap to.

 

à How do you say the time after war? Post-war????

 

à In order to write with letters 19 do you write nineteenth?? (the teacher corrected it saying that it is not the right spelling but my computer accepts it!

 

  
Mister Micawber  #409290  Sat, 25 Aug 07 04:00 PM

These are OK:

He denied driving / having been driving so fast.
He denied breaking / having broken into the shop.

 
With this novel the author leaps into adult narrative.

Post-war.

19 = nineteen.
19th = nineteenth


  
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Anonymous  #409616  Sun, 26 Aug 07 02:01 PM

If I want to say 19th century, should I say nineteenth century? she corrected it but I pressume it is because it is not the correct way (I should have written it with numbers)

  
Mister Micawber  #409620  Sun, 26 Aug 07 02:25 PM

Either way is fine in my book, but I suppose it is clearer to use the figures:  19th century.

  
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