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Answer by L. B. for What do these "doing something" mean and are they...

You could rephrase these two sentences as:(1) In my first semester of college, I got to know people in my dorm because I was spending time in the dorm lounge, just watching TV there or taking study...

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Answer by Ethan Bolker for What do these "doing something" mean and are they...

These are grammatically correct sentences. They are indeed a little hard to parse (particularly for a nonnative speaker) since they are (as you note) somewhat haphazardly constructed.The first explains...

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What do these "doing something" mean and are they grammartically correct?

These two sentences are from TOEFL speaking (tpo40):(1) I got to know a lot of people in my dorm during my first semester just watching TV and taking study breaks in the lounge.(2). If students knew...

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