10 Simple Sentences (3)

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Atchan

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Please check these sentences and emend them if there are mistakes.
by the way, focus more on the abstract noun phrase.

---Simple Present Tense---
Active Voice: Children laugh a lot when they watch cartoon films.
Abstract Noun phrase: Children’s laughing a lot at the cartoon films make them happy.

---Future Tense---
Active Voice: Peter will kill any thief who dares to enter his house.
Abstract Noun phrase: Peter’s killing of any thief who dares to enter his house will dread the thieves.

---Simple Past Tense---
Active Voice: Tom warned his friend to keep off the dangerous regions.
Abstract Noun phrase: Tom’s warning of his friends to keep off the dangerous regions made him their leader.

---Present Continuous Tense---
Active Voice: John is renting a house after he come back from his country.
Abstract Noun phrase: John’s renting of a house is after he comes back from his country.

---Past Continuous Tense---
Active Voice: Ahmed was playing with his friends before he injured.
Abstract Noun phrase: Ahmed’s playing with his friends was before he injured.
 

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Please check these sentences and emend (amend) them if there are mistakes.
by the way, focus more on the abstract noun phrase.

---Simple Present Tense---
Active Voice: Children laugh a lot when they watch cartoon films.
Abstract Noun phrase: Children’s laughing a lot at the cartoon films make them happy.
'Laughing at' cartoon films is different from 'laughing when watching cartoon films' I think.

---Future Tense---
Active Voice: Peter will kill any thief who dares to enter his house.
Abstract Noun phrase: Peter’s killing of any thief who dares to enter his house will dread (deter) the thieves.

---Simple Past Tense---
Active Voice: Tom warned his friend to keep off the dangerous regions.
Abstract Noun phrase: Tom’s warning of his friends to keep off the dangerous regions made him their leader.
Correct but does not make sense. How does a warning make a person a leader?


---Present Continuous Tense---
Active Voice: John is renting a house after he come (came) back from his country.
Abstract Noun phrase: John’s renting of a house is after he comes (came)back from his country.

---Past Continuous Tense---
Active Voice: Ahmed was playing with his friends before he was injured.
Abstract Noun phrase: Ahmed’s playing with his friends was before he was injured.

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