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"Matando Pancho Villa" ?Puedo usar el gerundio?

"Matando Pancho Villa" ?Puedo usar el gerundio?

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I am writing a paper over "Pancho villa y una mujer desnuda" and I want to call it "Killing Pancho Villa", does this translate literally?

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updated Apr 27, 2011
posted by theredqueen

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Almost: you need an "a": Matando a...

updated Apr 27, 2011
posted by lazarus1907
darn that little pesky "a" :) it gets me every time....any trick to remembering it, i confuse the verbs that use it and don't.... - theredqueen, Apr 27, 2011
It is not the verb that requires, but the specificity of the object when it is human-like. - lazarus1907, Apr 27, 2011