Basing or Based? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Here is a slightly artificial sentence that illustrates the use of a participle phrase with a present participle, with an active meaning: Many companies evaluate students, basing their judgment on their teachers' references
Basing versus based - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Basing here is the present or active participle; it modifies the Agent of the verb base, the one who performs the action, namely us Now recast the original proposition into the passive voice, as it is expressed in your question:
Is there any difference between based on and on the basis of? A basis is reasons or justifications for making a logical argument On the basis of is used to reference those reasons On the basis of the General Theory of Relativity, gravity ripples were discovered Based on is used to refer to an account, description, or experience of something The movie was based on a true story
tense - English Language Learners Stack Exchange You'll need to complete a few actions and gain 15 reputation points before being able to upvote Upvoting indicates when questions and answers are useful What's reputation and how do I get it? Instead, you can save this post to reference later
How to use Having + V3 and Having been + V3 at the beginning of . . . For the record, I’m fairly sure “V3” is not any kind of widely-adopted terminology for any tense, maybe, is what you’re going for? Certainly wasn’t used at any point in any of my (entirely US) schooling That might be jargon specific to your program or textbook or whatever, or maybe somewhat wider than that, but it isn’t universal among English speakers anyway
When to use at or from after an adjective Consider the following sentences (I don't know if these are correct or not -- I'm only basing them off what sounds the best to my ears): I became hungry at the smell of the cookies I was exhausted from working all day I got excited at the sight of her face I'm broke from having spent all my money at the bar
meaning of the phrase be right for the wrong reason? I have come across it in a Crash Course Astronomy The context is at around 3:34 Here is the sentence: Zwicky was right for the wrong reason Could you please rephrase the sentence basing on the
grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Make sure your verbs are in the correct tense - you say "outnumbered", so you must be basing this on data that was collected in the past, but you have used both "preferred" and "prefer" All of these ideally should be in the same tense
word usage - English Language Learners Stack Exchange As far as I understand copy-and-paste is used to mean the operation of copying, and pasting If somebody did that, can I say (for example) the following? She copied-and-pasted what I wrote on my