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    Default host and guest

    which one is host and wihich one is guest ?

    1. visiting a person
    2. vistied a person
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    Default Re: host and guest

    Quote Originally Posted by mooon View Post
    which one is host and wihich one is guest ?

    1. visiting a person The person (who is visiting) someone.
    2. vistied a personThe person (who is being) visited.
    Have you looked up the words in a dictionary? OneLook: General dictionary sites
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    Default Re: host and guest

    Quote Originally Posted by mooon View Post
    Which one is refers to a host and wihich which one is refers to a guest ?

    1. visiting a person
    2. vistied visited a person
    Both phrases could refer to both a guest and the host although the only one mentioned is the host ("a person"). The first sentence uses the continuous and the second one uses the past tense. In order for them to be sentences you need more words and you need to say who the guest is.

    1. The man is visiting a person. (The man is the guest. A person is the host. Present continuous.)

    2. The man visited a person. (The man is the guest. A person is the host. Simple past.)
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