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Grammar Question:
ate the following sentences past tense?
or is past mixed with present?
1) The dwelling swayed, gliding closer to the wall.
2) The dwelling swayed and began to glide closer to the wall.
I changed the original sentence so they sound dumb.
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1 can be read as past or past progressive. 2 is past.
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>>301591
so the fact that glide is a present word doesnt change the sentence to present? because it had the began as the sort of main verb right?
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>>301595
Glide isn't conjugated in either sentence. In the first, it's a participle, which is a verbal adjective, modifying "dwelling". In the second sentence, it's in the infinitive. In neither case does it affect the tense of the sentence as a whole.
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>>301596
thanks, that helped a lot.
are there any suggested reading you can recommend?
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>>301605
Not him, but a textbook/handbook that has never let me down is The Little, Brown Handbook. It has everything you need to learn or improve your English. 11th edition has served me well, idk if there's a newer one, though.
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>>301651
>The Little, Brown Handbook
Not the op but do you mean this one?
http://www.pearsoncustom.com/de/instructor/Instructors_manual.pdf
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