footage of me

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navi tasan

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Are these sentences correct:

1) My Dad found some footage of me not able to walk.

2) My Dad found some footage of me not yet able to walk.

The footage was of a period when I was not able to walk.

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Navi.
 

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I think you need "being" before "able to walk".
 

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They are correct but ambiguous.
 

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They are correct but seem to have different meanings. The second might be of you as a very small child who has not taken his first step. The first can refer to any age when injury or disease interfered with walking.
 

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If you're talking about the period of your childhood when you had not yet learnt to walk, I would say something like "My father found some footage of me from before I could walk".
 
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