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Participle phrase/help
Message de a_limon posté le 18-05-2012 à 18:59:17 (S | E | F)
Hi!

Can you help me please?
Could we say?
1)I had a trouble, reading this book.
2)Doing my work, I had a trouble.
3)I had a trouble, starting my car.

Thank you for your answers.

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Edited by lucile83 on 18-05-2012 21:51

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Réponse: Participle phrase/help de lucile83, postée le 18-05-2012 à 21:58:02 (S | E)
Hello,

None of those sentences is correct.
Have a look here to know how to use the word 'trouble':
Lien internet

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Réponse: Participle phrase/help de erasmus, postée le 19-05-2012 à 19:39:35 (S | E)
Hello,
I think the question deals with the gerund construction.
To me, all are correct if you remove the comma in the first and third sentences.

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Modifié par lucile83 le 19-05-2012 22:30

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Réponse: Participle phrase/help de sherry48, postée le 19-05-2012 à 19:46:36 (S | E)
Hello.
The problem has nothing to do with gerunds. It's a question of noncountable nouns.
Sherry

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Réponse: Participle phrase/help de erasmus, postée le 19-05-2012 à 19:50:55 (S | E)
Ok, you mean : I had trouble reading this book ?

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Réponse: Participle phrase/help de notrepere, postée le 19-05-2012 à 20:14:16 (S | E)
Hello

Here are the correct sentences:

1) I had trouble reading this book.
2) I had trouble doing my work.
3) I had trouble starting my car.

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