ahava_yin  +  479286 Wed, 20 Feb 08 01:29 PM ___ at in his way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate. A. Looking    B. Looked Which one would you prefer? What do you usually say to express the meaning? Thank you! ahava_yin Joined on Thu, Sep 9 2004 Full Member 335 Hi, I'm learning English. Your notes help me a lot. I love the forum.

	Yankee  +  479292 Wed, 20 Feb 08 01:38 PM Hi Tricky Did you mean to write 'his' or did you intend to write 'this'? Looked at (in) this way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate. If you look at the situation this way, it doesn't seem so desperate. Looked at his way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate. If you look at the situation his way, it doesn't seem so desperate. Yankee Joined on Sat, Apr 15 2006 Connecticut, USA Veteran Member 6,506 Amy "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

	Grammar Geek  +  479297 Wed, 20 Feb 08 01:43 PM Hi Ahava_yin, With at in his way, only "looked" works. It describes the situation. Looking at it his way, the situation ...  sets up an ungrammatical construction: the situaton is not the the thing that is looking. A way around that is to say "If you look at it his way..." or "Looking at it his way, I don't find the situation to be so deperate" or "Looking at it his way makes the situation seem not so desperate.   I would actually not use the "in," but rather "it."  Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random! Constructions