wace
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I understand the preposition BESIDES precedes a gerund:
BESIDES doing the cooking I look after the garden.
Yet, I recently came across a sentence in an American website containing the preposition BESIDES followed by a bare infinitive:
What else do you do besides take care of the children?
Was it a mistake or is the infinitive justified by the verb DO which comes right before the preposition?
Would 'What else did you do besides taking ...?' be just as correct? That's how I would say it.
Thank you
BESIDES doing the cooking I look after the garden.
Yet, I recently came across a sentence in an American website containing the preposition BESIDES followed by a bare infinitive:
What else do you do besides take care of the children?
Was it a mistake or is the infinitive justified by the verb DO which comes right before the preposition?
Would 'What else did you do besides taking ...?' be just as correct? That's how I would say it.
Thank you