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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Ellipsis
The verb give is wrong; it should have been giving (Straits Times, 27 November 2010).
This is because the final clause shares an auxiliary verb with the preceding one, and since it is understood it may be omitted (or ellipted): he is not heeding her words and he (is) not giving in to his grief.
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