http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aGerunds+tag%3aPresent+tenses+tag%3aConstructionsSearch results for 'tag:Gerunds tag:Present tenses tag:Constructions' matching tags 'Gerunds', 'Present tenses', and 'Constructions'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Style/ccngn/post.htm#180740Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:28:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:180740sextusI thought that perhpas the use of the gerund limiting makes more sense in the context of the sentence Use of and limits would be correct if the sentence meant that there are 2 reasons the skeptic uses to be as he does and those reasons were that he suspends judgment on the existence of good bad etc and the other is that he limits himself to basing his value judgments on the ways things appear If that were the sense of the sentence grammatically parallel construction dictates that suspends and limits both be used in the present tense However this sentence means that the skeptic uses to be as he does because he suspends judgment on the existence of good bad etc and that consistent with that or as a consequence of that his value judgments are based on the way things appear to him I thought this meaning more plausible because the suspension of judgment and the limitation of value judgments are so close as to be duplicative if stated as different reasons for the Skeptic s use of to be in the sense of to appear Hence perhaps the subordinate clause beginning with the gerund could show that what follows in the sentence is in accordance with what s been said in the main clause Sextus