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Thanks, Ron. You're the best!
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RonPurewal Wrote:Your understanding of __ed/__ing is perfect.
In context, though, it would be weird to use __ing, even if the workers are still getting better.
The point is that the company has already realized cost savings (or increased efficiency, or whatever the sentence said)"”because of improvements that have already been achieved.
In other words, the cost savings are not really tied to the improving performance. They're tied to the fact that performance has improved.
Hi, Ron, sorry to bump this old thread again. I'm still confused with the use of "through". why is the "improving performance of wrokers" is wrong and "improved worker performance" is right? does through must be followed by noun? I think that in "through improving XXX" improving is a gerund. in my onipion, i think that "improving performance" means that companies improve the performance while "improved performance" means that the performance is improved by workers, thus different. and I can't understand why "improving" means the action isn't completed and "improved"means the action is completed. Please help me. Thanks in advance.
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i don't know the terminology you're using, so i can't address that part of the question.
if you're interpreting "improving performance" as a noun——as in Improving your performance beyond a certain point is hard——then the sentence doesn't make sense.
the company doesn't save money in the process of improving its workers' performance. (if anything, that sort of training costs money.)
what helps the company save money? the better performance itself does. so, you need adjective + "performance".
if you interpret "improving" as an adjective, then the previously addressed problems obtain.
if you're interpreting "improving performance" as a noun——as in Improving your performance beyond a certain point is hard——then the sentence doesn't make sense.
the company doesn't save money in the process of improving its workers' performance. (if anything, that sort of training costs money.)
what helps the company save money? the better performance itself does. so, you need adjective + "performance".
if you interpret "improving" as an adjective, then the previously addressed problems obtain.
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AllenY389 Wrote:while "improved performance" means that the performance is improved by workers
^^ nope. "improved performance" just means that the performance has been improved.
by ... anything.
e.g.,
Test takers badly need updated study materials; the current ones have not been revised in over 20 years.
^^ this is a perfectly good sentence. it most definitely does not imply that the materials should be updated by the test takers themselves.