老师您好，请问下面这个句子中，use为什么要用现在分词的形式。When we tell a story or joke we often describe the main events using the present (or past) simple and longer, background events using the present (or past) continuous.
She listened: the back door closed she could hear the fastener of the kitchen window’s click, and the restless pad of his feet going back to try the front door. 求大神分析下这句话以及翻译，看了有点懵
例句：The key is whether school sport organisers emphasise young participants' effort and teamwork over the outcome of competition.如果没有这种表达可能是刊印出错??(不太可能啊，如果是的，）把whether换成rather有可能让句子通顺且易于理解吗？
...nmental awareness is important,because this can change the ways people use and dispose of different products.我们需要提高人们的环保意识，因为这会改变人们使用和处理产品的方式后半句“people use ...products”与“the ways”衔接上有语法问题吗？
... rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.请问这里in which是什么用法？
...media they did not want Abe to be seen to be getting privileged treatment, and cited the backlash the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has faced for clearing his senior adviser of breaking UK quarantine rules.句中of breaking UK quarantine rules在句中做什么成分？谢谢回答
...and making sure the President is paying attention or at least
doesn't think of himself as above the law.上面，as是否多余？可否直接说成think of himself
above the law ?如果as是必须的，为什么后面可以直接加上介词词组above the law, 而不是as sth - sth需要是名...
...her mother
had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to NewYork and say goodby
to a soldier.关于她的流言蜚语到处传播，有人说一个冬天的晚上，她母亲发现她在收拾行李，准备去纽约和一个军人道别。请教各位老师，破折号后面这句句首...
Though ostensibly a book about creativity, the author frequently veers off to discuss animal emotion andintelligence.麻烦请问亲爱的老师，though后可以只加个名词吗？是不是应该加个句子？
...是放在句末，至少应该是谓语动词之后。如：He rode away whistling. 他吹着口哨骑车走了。I lay tossing half the night. 我翻来覆去半夜没睡着。She ran screaming out of the room. 她尖叫着跑出了房间。Don’t you sit there doing nothing. 别什么也不干坐...