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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Is the noun phrase 'the cartoon' caseless in the following ungrammatical sentence?
*His repeated watching the cartoon made his mother upset.
I think it is because 'watching' seems to be a gerund but wrongly modified by the adjectial pp 'repeated', needing to be followed by a preposition 'of', which leaves 'the cartoon' caseless.
Am I right?
*His repeated watching the cartoon made his mother upset.
I think it is because 'watching' seems to be a gerund but wrongly modified by the adjectial pp 'repeated', needing to be followed by a preposition 'of', which leaves 'the cartoon' caseless.
Am I right?
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I think that if a sentence is ungrammatical then it doesn't make much sense to ask about the grammatical role of words within it. Nevertheless, since it is apparently not saying that "the cartoon made his mother upset", I don't see how "cartoon" can be anything other than the object of "watching".
- I think that if a sentence is ungrammatical then it doesn't make much sense to ask about the grammatical role of words within it.
- Nevertheless, since it is apparently not saying that "the cartoon made his mother upset", I don't see how "cartoon" can be anything other than the object of "watching".
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I think that if a sentence is ungrammatical then it doesn't make much sense to ask about the grammatical role of words within it. Nevertheless, since it is apparently not saying that "the cartoon made his mother upset", I don't see how "cartoon" can be anything other than the object of "watching".
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