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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Adjectival phrase modifying a noun?
Hi. Please tell me what you think about the comments I made.
1. The rooms are crowded with people buying food. -- I think this is correct and I think there is an ellipted phrase "who are" that supposed to be before the word "buying" so the whole phrase, including the elllipted phrase would be "The rooms are crowded with people who are buying food."
2. The rooms were crowded with people buying food. -- I think this is correct and I think there is an elliped phrase "who were" and the full version would be "The rooms were crowded with people who were buying food."
So we can have sentences with both past- and present-time ellipses, the parts ellipted being "who are" and "who were", depending on sentential situations. Right?
But both of the above will be different in structure to this:
It sent the building crashing onto the ground.
For this, I think there is no ellipted phrase and is an adverbial phrase describing the fashion which the building went down (if I am not mistaken).
And both of them are correct.
1. The rooms are crowded with people buying food. -- I think this is correct and I think there is an ellipted phrase "who are" that supposed to be before the word "buying" so the whole phrase, including the elllipted phrase would be "The rooms are crowded with people who are buying food."
2. The rooms were crowded with people buying food. -- I think this is correct and I think there is an elliped phrase "who were" and the full version would be "The rooms were crowded with people who were buying food."
So we can have sentences with both past- and present-time ellipses, the parts ellipted being "who are" and "who were", depending on sentential situations. Right?
But both of the above will be different in structure to this:
It sent the building crashing onto the ground.
For this, I think there is no ellipted phrase and is an adverbial phrase describing the fashion which the building went down (if I am not mistaken).
And both of them are correct.
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Hi,
Are you answering your own questions or asking for help?
1. The rooms are crowded with people buying food. Present tense. You are describing what is happening in the rooms to someone.
2. 2. The rooms were crowded with people buying food. Past tense. You are describing what you saw in the rooms to some
Everything els
Are you answering your own questions or asking for help?
1. The rooms are crowded with people buying food. Present tense. You are describing what is happening in the rooms to someone.
2. 2. The rooms were crowded with people buying food. Past tense. You are describing what you saw in the rooms to some
Everything els
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