Dear Yong Peng, Dimitry and John,
I found your observations very interesting. I can learn from them and I am
delighted with such discussions. Thus, there are more options sometimes, but
the context can help us what to choose. When we have sentences in exercises
there is no context to help us, though exercises in themselves are very good
and useful.
Nina. .
op 12-08-2003 15:31 schreef Ong Yong Peng op ypong001@...:

The use of "and" is what I picked up from Pali Primer.

> In Duroiselle's, Chpt.14 §618(i), The Gerund always denotes an action
> completed before another; it may be translated by the word "having"
> followed by a past participle as: gantvaa, having gone; or by the
> past tense followed by the conjunction "and" : gantvaa, he went
> and...