Is this sentence grammatically correct? The teacher noticed several students were cheating.
I used complex object and built a sentence like this "The teacher noticed several students cheating." But, may I apply past continuous for this purpose?For instance:
The teacher noticed several students WERE cheating. So, it is a complex sentence now including two subjects and predicates.
Which way is adequate for commonplace?
Thanks in advance!
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Alex, either sentence looks correct to me and are both common. My feeling is that in the first example , "students cheating", there might be a resulting action following it . "The teacher noticed the students cheating so she gave those students an F grade." But basically both examples say the same thing in slightly different ways.
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