KJOU
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Why not?
Is the following sentence is wrong too? [STRIKE], either?[/STRIKE]
I watched the sky for a moment, then realizing it was cloudy.
Could you tell me why a participial construction works here?
What is the problem with the second example?
I watched the sky for a moment and then realized it was cloudy.
I watched the sky for a moment, then realizing it was cloudy.
The bus leaves at 5:00, and then reaches the destination.
The bus leaves at 5:00, reaching the destination at 6:00.
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Have you ever done something, then realized there is a better way to do it?
Can I paraphrase this as follows:
Have you ever done something, then realizing there is a better way to do it?
I would correct any learner who produced that.Have you ever done something, realizing thereupon that there was a better way to do it?
I would correct any learner who produced that.
I think it's something no native speaker would say.Do you find something wrong with it?
I think it's something no native speaker would say.
It sounds awkward and old-fashioned to me too. I'd say "Have you ever done something then immediately realised there was a better way to do it?"
"Large companies like to say they have this sort of closeness, and indeed they might - until the consumer has to deal with the larger coporate entity, realizing thereupon that all that chuminess was rather superficial and even devious. The answer, I suppose, is to be small, though even as I write that it seems ludicrous and naive" (source).
You and I have different opinions about that.very well written and not awkward at all:
I don't think emsr2d2 merely tried. She succeeded, as many people do.Do you often try to use "then" as a coordinating conjunction between verb phrases?)
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