We welcome the government to build another school in this area.

[joham]

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English lists the constructions of 'welcome doing sth' and 'welcome sb doing sth' without giving example sentences.

 

[tedmc]

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English lists the constructions of 'welcome doing sth' and 'welcome sb doing sth' without giving example sentences.

"Welcome somebody doing something" is similar to "have somebody doing something". The "doing" is a gerund.

It doesn't help (learners) when you say something is incorrect without giving the reason.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I have consulted five dictionaries but cannot find an example of 'welcome someone doing something'. Can a teacher confirm whether the following example is correct or incorrect?

We welcome the government building another school in this area.

 

[Matthew Wai]

The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English lists the constructions of 'welcome doing sth' and 'welcome sb doing sth' without giving example sentences.

I just thought up one example: 'We welcomed a guest wearing a hat', where 'wearing a hat' is a participle phrase modifying 'guest' and where 'a guest' rather than 'wearing a hat' was welcomed and where 'welcomed' refers to definition#1 rather than #3 at http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/welcome_1

 

[joham]

LONGMAN GRAMMAR OF SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH, table9.13, p743:
Verbs of affective stance
verbs attested in the LSWE Corpus:
verb + ing-clause- (cannot) bear, (don't) care for. be concerned about brood over,
celebrate, count on, delight in, deplore, detest, dislike, dread, endure, enjoy, be
engrossed in, (can't) face, favor, fancy, feel like, hate, be interested inlinterest NP in, like.
loathe, love, (don't) mind, miss, prefer, regret relish, resent can't stand, tire of, tolerate,
welcome, worry about
verb + NP + ing-clause- admire, (cannot) bear, (don't) care for, be concerned about,
brood over, celebrate, count on, delight in, depend on, deplore, detest dislike, dread,
endure, enjoy, (can't) face, favor, fancy, hate, be interested inlinterest NP in, like, loathe,
love, (don't) mind, miss, prefer, regret relish, rely on, resent can't stand, tire of, tolerate,
want welcome, worry about

 

[joham]

Date 2005 (0504) Title The Irish Patient And Dr. Lawsuit Author By WARREN ST. JOHN Source NEWS: New York Times

Expanded context:
negativity from his peers there. From then on, Dr. Sachs would operate exclusively at his office without the oversight of other physicians. # At the conclusion of the state investigation in 2004, the Health Department allowed Dr. Sachs to keep his license but prohibited him from doing any nose procedures that required more than two surgeries unless he was supervised by another surgeon. Despite the finding, Dr. Sachs said he was relieved. # " I said,' If it's a very complicated congenital case, fine, we'll do a team approach.' I welcomed them coming in and observing, and it got twisted in the press that I was somehow being punished. " # Dr. Sachs continued to appear in magazines with no questioning of his qualifications. He also appeared in an article in The Wall Street Journal about Botox parties, in The New York Observer commenting on the appearance of Senator John Kerry and in an article in The New York Times about holiday tipping habits in Manhattan. (Dr. Sachs had given his masseuse and nanny cosmetic surgery for their tips.

(From Corpus of Contemporary American English)