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3 February
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What I want you to do is cleaning the window.
Your task is cleaning the window.
What I want you to do is cleaning the window.
Your task is cleaning the window.
Your task is cleaning the window.
这两个句子作为动名词的表语用法，应该没有问题吧？
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
@bubulubu Thank you for your anwser, but I'm sorry I don't understand why "be + verb" is ok. This is different from the knowlege I had learned at school.
- English (US)
@October1028 I’m not sure how to explain well but the first sentence is a command, it’s not describing what the person is doing, so it should be “clean” not “cleaning.” If you want to use the word “cleaning” you could say “What I want you to be *doing* is cleaning.”
Hope that makes more sense!
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