¶ (Peach settles herself in her room.)
“You are rather blessed in your previous lives,“ said Tsai as they stepped into the room prepared for Peach. “Single rooms are few here, and this one is the best. Sit, slowly.”
After letting Peach sit down on
the bed edge the edge of the bed, Tsai moved around in the small space doing chores for Peach.
Peach had her looks following Tsai timidly Peach timidly followed Tsai with her eyes..
“Why are you always looking at me? ” said Tsai friendly but quickly, “You can take out all
the daily necessities you have your personal belongings and we’ll stick your name
to on them, your clothes, shoes and socks included. So they won’t get mixed with the other people's.”
Peach stretched her arm slowly toward the small pile of name strips
of made of cloth on the bedside table,
on them her name written in a poor handwriting her name written poorly on them. A new action to Peach, reasonable and necessary here--But why can't they
make the strips
beautifully/
prettily beautiful?
Tsai went on, announcing, “You have to take good care of your valuables, or we can also
help keep them keep them for you. Otherwise we won’t pay
in case you lost them*
if you lose them.”
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-Both "if" and "in case" refer to events which might occur, but the difference is when the action takes place. Setting up the coffee pot "in case he comes" means setting it up in advance of his coming whereas setting it up "if he comes" refers to setting it up at the time that he comes.
So to go back to you example, paying for the lost belongings is something that happens after the belongings are lost. But you could say "We'll lock up your valuables just in case." Because that's a preventative measure.
¶ “I… I had none,” said Peach, shaking her hand.
“Fine. Take all your stuff out then. You can press the bell to call us when necessary,” said Tsai.
Peach turned her head to study the bell on the wall, another new
equipment piece of equipment there wasn't in Roger's house.
“Do you need any help?” Tsai asked again.
“No.”
“Nice,” said Tsai with a big smile. “How good it would be if we
have had a few more like you.
Take Get some rest then.”
Peach watched Tsai
leaving*
leave, and then had a sweeping look slowly and uneasily at the narrow space.
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Pretty much every example sounds better to me with a small clause than with a gerundive:
"Peach watched Tsai leave."
"Peach watched Tsai walk away."
"Peach watched Tsai kick a ball."
"Peach watched Tsai paint a room."
I think this has something to do with the fact that "watch" is inherently progressive. You watch something in progress. If it's an instantaneous action, you see it. Compare:
"I saw him kick a ball." (He kicked a ball and I saw it.)
"I saw him kicking a ball." (At the time that I saw him, he was in the process of kicking a ball.)
- Compare also the usage of the verb leave which most often refers to a punctual action and not a process. It can't take a small clause and either governs a gerundive or a full infinitive:
"I left him kicking a ball." (He was kicking a ball repeatedly when I left him.)
"I left him painting a room." (He was painting a room when I left him.)
"I left him to paint a room." (Ambiguous. Either I left him in order to paint a room myself or he was about to paint a room and I left him so that he could get on with it.)
- If you really want to foreground the processive aspect, the best way to my ears is with a subordinate clause:
"Peach watched Tsai as she left/walked way/kicked a ball/painted a room."
¶ It was separated with partitions, unable at all to
get soundproofed provide soundproofing. An exhaust fan was revolving above and making
slight noise a slight noise; next to it was a hanging fan. Both fans were cheap products like those used in a factory. On the ceiling where the hanging fan was fixed
had there was a big hole. Peach could find nothing to win her smiles. She had no idea it'd be such an environment when telling Roger she'd like to live in a nursing home. Her firm determination at the time was now destroyed
thoroughly/ inside out by what she had seen and heard since she came in. It was quite different from Roger's house where she had lived for more than sixty years. She had gotten used to the coziness and the
simple*
small population,
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"Simple" applied to people means "not intelligent".
¶ especially
since after* after most of them emigrated to America.
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- Since: from a specified time in the past.
After: following in time.
- Compare with:
-[...] trial, meaning it couldn't be simpler or easier, especially since after the Free Trial Period is over, the service may be canceled at anytime.
=... since the service may be canceled at anytime after the Free Trial Period is over.
-Since after the full implementation of the Ordinance, unregistered construction workers shall be prohibited from working...
=Since unregistered construction workers shall be prohibited from working after the full implementation of the Ordinance...[/quote]
¶ She even had a cat, Kaka, as her company there. But what did she have here? Feeling depressed
by the nursing home and annoyed at her
hasty decision, also
getting tired feeling a little tired after the transportation,
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Get tired of sth: no longer wanting something or wanting to do something because you are bored with it or annoyed by it.
¶ she had little
energy/vigor to take her simple
stuff possessions out of her bags. Heavily, she placed the bag in her hand
onto on the head of the bed and lay down
curling on her left
shoulder side, her head on the bag, while letting her legs
remained drooping on droop over the edge of the bed.