Please help me with a grammar problem.
When she saw me (stand/standing) in the doorway, she apologised and said she needed to send an urgent email and carried on looking at her screen.
The correct answer is standing, but why can't I say stand?
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Please help me with a grammar problem.
When she saw me (stand/standing) in the doorway, she apologised and said she needed to send an urgent email and carried on looking at her screen.The correct answer is standing, but why can't I say stand?
Both work BUT standing is more effective. In your sentence..... Standing is more like a movie. To stand is like a photo.
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Please help me with a grammar problem.
When she saw me (stand/standing) in the doorway, she apologised and said she needed to send an urgent email and carried on looking at her screen.The correct answer is standing, but why can't I say stand?
It is because the action was continuous....you were still standing in the doorway when she apologised. The meaning is that you were still standing there while she was looking at her screen (her action of looking at the screen was also continuous).
You could use "stand", but standing is better because of the continuous action. If you said "stand", it suggests that you may only have stood for a moment, and then moved.
I hope this helps
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