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imsak
 
Reply Thu 30 Apr, 2015 09:07 am
Each of my sentences below, is there any of them ungrammatical and not understandable?

1.Why having to wait any longer when he hasn't appeared so far?
2.We have a lot of time, why having to hurry?
3.When he doesn't love you at all, why wasting so much time thinking of him?
4.Why still being here, don't you know it is getting late now?
5.Why asking such a question, it sounds absurd?
6.Why having to be with such annoying person when you don't like her?

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dalehileman
 
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Reply Thu 30 Apr, 2015 10:13 am
@imsak,
1.Why wait any longer when so far he hasn't appeared?

2.We have lots of time, why hurry?
(Yea technically not spousta use comma but instead semi--or separate)

3.When (or "If") he doesn't love you at all, why waste so much time thinking about him?

4.Why ("are you" or just "you") still sitting there, don't you know it's getting late?
(Technically tho Isak tween it needs semi or period as in 2)

4.Why still sitting there? when it's so late
(Yes many will reject this one, Im, but others say it's okay)

4.Why (are you) still sitting there? Don't you know it's getting late?

4.Why still sitting there, it's getting late
(Current practice often in such cases to eliminate the "?"

5.Why ask such a question, it sounds absurd?
(See 4 above )

6.Why be with such an annoying person when you don't like her?


Doubtless Con or one of the other excellent techs will elaborate
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FBM
 
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Reply Thu 30 Apr, 2015 10:16 am
@imsak,
imsak wrote:

Each of my sentences below, is there any of them ungrammatical and not understandable?

1.Why having to wait any longer when he hasn't appeared so far?


Why do I/you/we have to wait any longer when he hasn't appeared after so long?

Quote:
2.We have a lot of time, why having to hurry?


We have a lot of time; why (do we have to) hurry?

Quote:
3.When he doesn't love you at all, why wasting so much time thinking of him?


Since he doesn't love you at all, why waste so much time thinking about him?

Quote:
4.Why still being here, don't you know it is getting late now?


Why are you still here? Don't you know how late it is (getting)?

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5.Why asking such a question, it sounds absurd?


What ask such a question? It's absurd.

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6.Why having to be with such annoying person when you don't like her?


Why should you stay with such an annoying person when you don't even like her?

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contrex
 
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Reply Thu 30 Apr, 2015 10:56 am
In every single sentence you wrongly used the -ing form of a verb. This is clearly an area you need to study more.
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Thu 30 Apr, 2015 11:00 am
@imsak,
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Each of my sentences below, is there any of them ungrammatical and not understandable?


My initial reaction is that this quoted sentence is ungrammatical.

That's a bad start!
Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Thu 30 Apr, 2015 11:03 am
@Frank Apisa,
Oops, sorry . I did not notice the ESL designation...and thought I might be speaking to a student looking to have his/her homework done by us.

My apologies.

Your opening sentence needs lots of work.

Give it another try...see if you can fix it yourself.

If not, some of us will offer suggestions.
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imsak
 
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Reply Thu 30 Apr, 2015 05:20 pm
Thank you to you all for worthy replies.

It seems I have totally failed with using the -ing form in a sentence and have a lot more to learn about it.

By the way, as using Why + V-ing is ungrammatical, does it become grammatical if -ing is omitted, to read, such as, 'Why have to do sth' without pronoun being put between Why and Have?
FBM
 
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Reply Thu 30 Apr, 2015 08:14 pm
@imsak,
'Why do I have to do that?'

Even without the gerund, you still need either a noun or pronoun in there. Here's a pretty good tutorial on gerunds and infinitives: http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/
imsak
 
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Reply Fri 1 May, 2015 01:27 am
@FBM,
Really good site for me to learn more about gerund. Thank you.
FBM
 
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Reply Fri 1 May, 2015 01:31 am
@imsak,
No sweat. Hope it helps.
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