Does it better to change "wash " into "washing" ?

Chinese translation: wash is a better choice

03:43 Sep 27, 2013

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English term or phrase: Does it better to change "wash " into "washing" ?

About this text:

> and then feeling a sense of ease and liberation wash over me.

Does it better to change "wash " into "washing" ? Because I think this would be more suitable for grammatical rules.

Thank you in advance!

**The context is :**

>Come On, Get Happy
>“Happiness is a fatality,” wrote the poet Rimbaud. I remember being somewhat puzzled when I first read that line, and then feeling a sense of ease and liberation wash over me. Turning the idea of happiness on its head had suddenly made me very happy.

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Excerpt from [*Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again!*](http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wU2HzHjzWdwC&printsec=fr... by Wes "Scoop" Nisker.

Kemp9 KudoZ activity Questions: 5 (none open) Answers: 1 China
Local time: 05:19

Chinese translation:wash is a better choice

Explanation:
紧接着全身涌过一阵轻松和解脱的感觉。霎那而过的感觉（即瞬间完成的动作）不能用进行时，只能用原形，正如I saw James get home with a girl.

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Danny Wu
China
Local time: 05:19

Grading comment

I think this make sense.thank you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

语法是正确滴！

Wallace Gu

wash is a better choice

Danny Wu

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

1 hr confidence:

does it better to change "wash " into "washing" ? 语法是正确滴！

Explanation:
这里的句型是： feel the sense ... wash over me.

感觉动词比如see, watch, hear, feel等后面常接不带to的不定式式动词形式。

比如著名歌曲：挥着翅膀的女孩里面有一句：see me fly...

Wallace Gu
China
Local time: 05:19
Native speaker of: Chinese
PRO pts in category: 8