Jose Carillo's English Forum
English Grammar and Usage Problems => Use and Misuse => Topic started by: jhinx22 on May 02, 2014, 09:14:33 AM
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Hello, Sir! Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?:
1. Enrollment is now on going.
2. Enrollment is now going on.
3. Enrollment is now ongoing.
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Sentence 1, “Enrollment is now on going,” is grammatically incorrect but both Sentence 2, “Enrollment is now going on,” and Sentence 3, “Enrollment is now ongoing,” are grammatically correct.
Sentence 1 suffers from bad syntax and bad semantics because the word order of the phrase “on going” is inverted, making the sentence nonsensical.
Sentence 2 correctly uses the present tense progressive form of the intransitive verb phrase “go on” that means “continue,” while Sentence 3 correctly uses the one-word “ongoing” as an adjective that means “continuing” or “being actually in process.”
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Thank you, Sir!
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Most of the schools here use "on going" instead of the correct form "ongoing". Many thanks for this information.