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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

All of them ((furthering)) the Oprah brand.

The show has spun off into a magazine, a TV channel and a film production company, all of them furthering the Oprah brand.

Q) I don't know how 'furthering' can come in that position: main verb in a connected clause.

What is the form of it?( What is original form before the omission? )
  

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First: these things don't have 'original forms', so please don't set that idea in your mind. When we as teachers or you as a student try to fill out the grammar of such as nonfinite structures or bare infinitives, it is just for the sake of exploring grammar and syntax. Here, 'all of them furthering the Oprah brand' is a nonfinite clause modifiying the 3 nouns preceding.

  • First: these things don't have 'original forms', so please don't set that idea in your mind.
  • When we as teachers or you as a student try to fill out the grammar of such as nonfinite structures or bare infinitives, it is just for the sake of exploring grammar and syntax.
  • Here, 'all of them furthering the Oprah brand' is a nonfinite clause modifiying the 3 nouns preceding.
  • [in/for which] all of them [are] furthering..
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First: these things don't have 'original forms', so please don't set that idea in your mind. When we as teachers or you as a student try to fill out the grammar of such as nonfinite structures or bare infinitives, it is just for the sake of exploring grammar and syntax.

Here, 'all of them furthering the Oprah brand' is a nonfinite clause modifiying the 3 nouns preceding. We can constru

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