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Hi,This is on page 660 #17 on the SAT OG Book.One of the brackets is suppose to contain an error. wrong? No. "That grew steeper . . .' is a subordinate clause that describes 'trail'.All the other verbs are in present tense, except this one. Or can the others be gerunds? No, they...

Alienvoord wrote:I'm a native speaker. I'd say that a verbal is a noun or adjective that is derived from a verb. All 3 sentences sound fine to me. milky: "All of those are incorrect." how's that? What would you say verbals are if you were allowed to say only one sentence and this...

I 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...

The city is polluted. ( simple present tense in passive form ) I tried to shout ( simple past tense, incomplete sentence ) I tried shouting ( simple past, " shouting " is a gerund ) He claimed that he was the Queen's nephew. ( simple past, " that he was the Queen's nephew " is a noun clause...