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a)
to see
to hear
to feel
to watch
to notice
to observe
to perceive
to smell
to find
to catch
to discover
to look (at)
to listen (to)
We saw (watched, heard, listened to) the train approaching the station.
Do you smell something burning?
I could feel the dog leaning against my feet.
We found him working in the garden.
b)
to have
to get
to keep
to leave
to start
to set
I won’t have you smoking at your age!
They soon got (started) things going.
Don’t keep me waiting. I’m in a hurry.
Your words set me thinking.
Can you start (set) that engine going?
Note:
The verbs to have, to get may be used in the construction without their causative meaning, as in:
I have some students waiting for me.
I’ve got my grandson staying for a week.
Sentences with the verbs of this group are usually translated into Russian by simple sentences.
c) to want, to like
I don’t want you talking back to me.
They didn’t like me leaving so early.
§ 138. The nominative absolute participial construction.
This construction consists of two interdependent elements, nominal and verbal, which are in a predicative
relation. The nominal element is a noun in the common case or a pronoun in the nominative case. The verbal
element is participle I in any of its forms. The nominal and the verbal elements make a syntactical complex
functioning as a detached adverbial modifier. Unlike the objective participial construction it does not depend on
a verb:
John having left the room to ring for a taxi as arranged, Mary sat down again to wait for him.
The difference between a participial phrase and a nominative absolute participial construction may be
illustrated as follows:
Having read the novel Jane (she) put it aside.
The novel having been read, Jane (she) put it aside.
In a participial phrase the subject of the sentence is as a rule related both to the predicate verb and to the
participle. In a sentence with a nominative absolute participial construction the subject of the sentence is related