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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

After doing this, he did that.

Hello everyone...

I was wondering if you could help me with an existential doubt. In the following sentence:

"After spending 30 minutes washing his car, Jack went back inside and finished writing his novel."

What is the grammatical/syntactic term for the phrase "After spending 30 minutes washing his car"?

Thanks in advance. And my apologies for my ignorance.

thom.-
  

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In Scandinavia and large parts of Europe it is called a temporal clause equivalent. I think I have seen many native English speakers refer to it as a reduced clause . We don't call anything a clause that doesn't have a finite verb.

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  • In Scandinavia and large parts of Europe it is called a temporal clause equivalent.
  • I think I have seen many native English speakers refer to it as a reduced clause .
  • We don't call anything a clause that doesn't have a finite verb.
  • There are some differences in grammatical terminology.
  • CB
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In Scandinavia and large parts of Europe it is called a temporal clause equivalent. I think I have seen many native English speakers refer to it as a reduced clause. We don't call anything a clause that doesn't have a finite verb. There are some differences in grammatical terminology.

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