My friend's mums and English teacher and she said this sentence is correct while i think it is not.
"The plane crashed, it's bomb exploding as it hit the ground"
This is using present and past tense right?
Shouldn't it be
"The plane crashed, it's bomb exploded as it hit the ground"
2007-06-02 09:17:14 · 7 answers · asked by Rahhot 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Exploding is the verbal noun of explode which is really not past, present, or future. Crashed is definitely the past tense of crash. There are only two past tenses used in the above sentence, crashed and hit. In essence, the entire sentence is in the past.
By the way, who stated the above sentence was correct? Was it, your friend's mums and english teacher and she, which makes three or four people depending on the number of mums. Or was is, your friend's mum, an english teacher, and she, which is only two.
If I were you, I would not worry about correcting your elders' english. (That's elders' which means plural possesive of elders which belong to you)
SMILE and have a nice day.
2007-06-02 09:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an English teacher or anything but wouldn't crashed be past tense whereas exploding is present?
2007-06-02 09:21:24 · answer #2 · answered by Jamie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She's right.
The plane crashed, its bomb exploding as it hit the ground.
Or, The plane crashed, and its bomb exploded as it hit the ground.
But it's "its", not "it's".
2007-06-02 09:26:47 · answer #3 · answered by Maus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first one is correct - provided that you take the apostraphe out of the word 'its.'
The second sentence could be made correct simply by changing the comma to a semicolon to set apart two independent clauses.
2007-06-02 12:23:36 · answer #4 · answered by jimbob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could use either the first one (the present progressive tense) or the second one (the past tense). Either one is correct.
2007-06-02 09:21:06 · answer #5 · answered by zoralink3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The grammar is correct, but she should have written "its" bomb, instead of "it's." The word "it's" is a shortened form of "it is," while the word "its" means "belonging to it."
2007-06-02 09:23:50 · answer #6 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would agree with you in terms of yours showing both present and past. However, you have "it's" when it should be "its". It with an apostrophe does not show posession, but instead it is the contraction of "it" and "is" together--it breaks the rule.
2007-06-02 09:27:13 · answer #7 · answered by moonstruk333 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋