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Originally Posted by NewHope I guess "Fruit 'n' Bran" refers to a brand of soem food can
. When opnning the can, a jingle would hear.
Right?
And why using "amble", not "ambled"? I think when "watch" is in front of a verb, the verb should keep its bare form, like "is" should be "be".
Right?
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Harry listened to a jingle about Fruit 'n' Bran breakfast cereal while he watched Mrs.Figg, a batty cat-loving old lady from nearby Wisteria Walk, amble slow past. |
Fruit'n Bran is a Kellogg's cereal we eat for breakfast.
The sentence you have posted up I read as:
Harry listened to an advertising slogan ("jingle" can also mean some catchy phrase used in commercials hundreds of times...this is the way commercials work - they are repetative and boring :mad: ) while he watched Mrs.Figg...amble (=walk leisurely).
he watched somebody do sth = always infinitive in that combination.
other verbs using the same principle are "see" and "hear".
hope it helps.
