Windlily wrote:

Richard D. Lawson wrote:

She reached up to tenderly
touch his cheek.  Ranma smiled down at her, putting his hands on her
waist.

put (tense swapping, I think)

	No, "putting" is okay ("smiled" is the verb of the sentence, and
"putting" introduces a gerund clause that modifies it.)  If you want use
"put" as a verb, you'd need to say "smiled down at her *and* put...."

	OTOH, "to tenderly touch his cheek" is a split infinitive; "to touch
his cheek tenderly" would be more correct.

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