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   TZUTC: 0300   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-07-03   
   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AK> Can I use "using" without an article ("I saw strange   
   AK> using...")?   
      
   As a noun?  Yes, you can, but not in the parenthetical   
   example:   
      
      I was surprised at Phil's using an HP thin client as   
      an MS-DOS and Windows 98 retrocomputer.   
      
   AS>> "He seemed read a menace in the flicker of the   
   AS>> firelight"   
   AK> In my case "the other" was not a "bare infinite" -- the   
   AK> first one is in Past Simple(seemed) and other is also in   
   AK> Past simple (read).   
      
   When I entered these restrictions into my English parser   
   and bid it reparse the sentence, it panicked!  Where in the   
   wild have you seen an apposition of two verbs in Past   
   Simple?  Perhaps Parser and I can understand you better by   
   analogy?   
      
   AK> Is your English parser is also a spell checker?   
      
   No, but it comes with a built-in typo-generator, even as   
   your OCR firmware with a excellent typo-detector. Sometimes   
   I wonder which is better: my typo-generator or your typo-   
   detector...   
      
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