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Sentence: I love travelling and sit beside the driver.



 
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Sentence: I love travelling and sit beside the driver. #1 (permalink) Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:50 am   Sentence: I love travelling and sit beside the driver.
 

Are these sentences correct?

I read a two-paragraph story.

I love travelling and sit beside the driver.

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Sentece: I love travelling and sit beside the driver. #2 (permalink) Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:43 am   Sentece: I love travelling and sit beside the driver.
 

I read a two-paragraph story - correct.

I love travelling and sit beside the driver - not correct.
What you wrote means: I love travelling, and I [now] sit beside the river.
You probably intended to write: I love travelling and sitting by the river - then both travelling and sitting by the river are things you love to do.
I love to travel and sit by the river - also correct, means the same.
Make sure you use "to love" either with two -ing forms or with two infinitives, not one of each.

Edit: Oops! I was sloppy, read "driver" for river.
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Sentence: I love travelling and sit beside the driver. #3 (permalink) Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:31 am   Sentence: I love travelling and sit beside the driver.
 

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No 'river' I can see there-- I would think that she enjoys sitting beside the driver when she is travelling (she may get carsick in the back seat). Or she could correctly state: 'I enjoy travelling and always sit beside the driver'-- the adverb makes it clear that the parallel verbs are 'enjoy' and 'sit'-- but I think it is clear enough in the original sentence, which is fine.
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