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Tracking One Man’s Contacts in a City of 8 Million
New
York City’s first confirmed case of Ebola has raised complicated logistical
issues of how to trace the possible contacts of an infected patient in a city
of more than 8 million people with a sprawling mass transit system and a large
population of workers who commute every day from surrounding suburbs and states.
By
the time the patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency doctor who had recently
returned from Guinea, arrived at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan by
ambulance on Thursday, he was seriously ill, officials said.
Dr. Spencer complicated the tracing
process when he told health officials that
just the night before, he had gone bowling in Brooklyn, making the long trip
there from his home in Upper Manhattan by subway and then returning in a car
hired via the taxi service Uber.
City health officials
were suddenly faced with the challenge of finding the right balance between trying to find everyone
who might have been exposed and responding to a disease that is transmitted
only through direct exposure to bodily fluids.
It was soon clear that
health authorities had other worries, as word emerged that they were isolating
not just Dr. Spencer’s fiancée but also two friends who had been with him in
the two days before he arrived at the hospital. Dr. Spencer said he had started
feeling sluggish on Tuesday.
City officials were making plans to provide
case managers for every family or person who might need to be quarantined.
Those managers would help with the chores of daily life, such as providing
school materials for children or food for people confined to their homes.
New York has
some advantage in that it may be able to learn from what happened in Dallas,
where two nurses became infected with Ebola after treating Thomas E. Duncan,
the patient with the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States
who died on Oct. 8.
These are the explanation of -ing form in the article above :
1. Tracking One Man’s Contacts in a City of 8 Million
Explanation: The word tracking in
this sentence is included into -ing form (track+ -ing) as a noun
because it is a gerund which the function of gerund is a noun.
2.
a large population of workers who commute every day from surrounding suburbs and
states.
Explanation: The word surrounding in this
sentence is included into a gerund because it occurs after the preposition from.
The function of the gerund surrounding is as a noun.
3. Dr.
Spencer complicated the
tracing process when he told health officials that just the night
before.
Explanation : the word tracing this
sentence is included into –ing form as present participle as an adjective
because it modifies the noun (process).
4.
City
health officials were suddenly faced with the challenge of finding the right balance
between trying to
find everyone who might have been exposed and responding to a disease that is
transmitted only through direct exposure to bodily fluids.
Explanation : The word trying
in this sentence is included into a gerund because it occurs after the
preposition in. The function of the gerund trying is as a
noun.
5.
City officials
were making plans
to provide case managers for every family or person who might need to be
quarantined
Explanation: The word making in sentence is in
included into a past participle because the base verb is (make + ing). The
function of the past participle making is
as main verb because the pattern is
subject (city officials) + to be (were) + past participle (making) +
complement.
