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Jigneshbharati Posted 10 years ago
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As having
In fact, your baby doesn't even qualify as having a fever. Even for the very ... One reason parents tend to worry when the mercury climbs
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What is the grammatical function of "as" and "having" - statice or dynamic- here?
My guess: as preposition and having is a gerund acting as an object of preposition functions as noun
Thanks
http://www.babycenter.com/0_fever-in-babies-7-things-you-might-not-know_10373598.bc
What is the grammatical function of "as" and "having" - statice or dynamic- here?
My guess: as preposition and having is a gerund acting as an object of preposition functions as noun
Thanks
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Jigneshbharati What is the grammatical function of "as" and "having" - statice stative or dynamic- here? We don't usually ask this question of words that are not verbs. "have" is usually stative, and it is stative here.
- Jigneshbharati What is the grammatical function of "as" and "having" - statice stative or dynamic- here?
- We don't usually ask this question of words that are not verbs.
- "have" is usually stative, and it is stative here.
- The structure is rather complex.
- 'having a fever' is a reduced relative clause which modifies an implicitly repeated noun ( baby ).
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JigneshbharatiWhat is the grammatical function of "as" and "having" -We don't usually ask this question of words that are not verbs. "have" is usually stative, and it is stative here.staticestative or dynamic- here?
The structure is rather complex. 'having a fever' is a reduced relative clause which
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