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Today I try my a shortcoming in English. It is participle construction.This is the most weak point in English grammer for me.So I reviewed this.
For example.
I had my diary corrected by someone.
The man watching TV program who is thinking about diary.
A written diary was corrected by someone.
I make someone corrected my diary.
I have question.
(_____) how to stimulate the economy,the Japanese goverment has yet to take any effective measures.
(A)Knowing not (B)Not knowing (C)No knowing (D)Not to know
Answear is B.
Why? Please help me!!
For example.
I had my diary corrected by someone.
The man watching TV program who is thinking about diary.
A written diary was corrected by someone.
I make someone corrected my diary.
I have question.
(_____) how to stimulate the economy,the Japanese goverment has yet to take any effective measures.
(A)Knowing not (B)Not knowing (C)No knowing (D)Not to know
Answear is B.
Why? Please help me!!
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Today, I trying to understand one of my shortcomings in English.
This is my weakest point in English grammer.
So, I want to review this.
For example,
The man watching t.v., who is thinking about the diary.)
I make someone correct my diary. (Or, "I made someone correct my diary.")
I can't really explain it well, but I'm going to try to explain it.
A) Knowing not-is archaic or old language, like Shakespeare. It's also a literary device to put emphasis on whatever comes after it and the action of not doing (the action). I can't remember what it's called.
B) Not Knowing-is correct. Usually when we use words like "not," we put it before whatever it precedes (verbs, nouns, etc.). Some examples: not known/unknown, not here, not cool etc.
C)Not knowing-this could work if you change the sentence around. "Not knowing how to stimulate the economy, the Japanese government has not taken any measures (to stimulate the economy).
D)Not to know-This doesn't appear in English at all. I think it's grammatically incorrect, because you have not plus an infinitive (to + Verb). You could say, "Since the Japanese government does not know how to stimulate the economy, they haven't taken any action."
Today I am trying to understand one of my a shortcomings in English.
This is the most weak (correct, but "weakest" is better) point in English grammar for me.
The man watching ("a" or "the," your choice) TV program who is thinking about ("a," "the," "his"?) diary.
I have a question.
The answer is B.
C is definitely ungrammatical. The commonality between A and B is that their verbs are in fact gerunds, which are better than infinitives (particularly D) because they flow better as noun-adjectives. While A "sounds" more medieval and B, the fact is that they are equally effective in conveying the sentence's purpose, and more so if you read the sentences out loud with both answers. From what I've just learned, "not" is what's called a Boolean operator, and simply determines the negative (rather than affirmative) of words it separates, just like "and" or "or." The phrase "not to know" would insinuate that the Japanese government ignores knowing how to stimulate the economy, even while making the sentence grammatically incoherent. Gerunds are your best bet in making sentences flow.