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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Basic sentence pattern
i wonder what the pattern of the following sentence is. 'It seems like it is going to rain.' can anybody help me with it? please. thank you.
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I'm not sure if this is what you want. "It seems like" is a fixed phrase. "it is going to rain" is a present continuous followed by an infinitive denoting a prediction about a future occurence of rain.
- I'm not sure if this is what you want.
- "It seems like" is a fixed phrase.
- "it is going to rain" is a present continuous followed by an infinitive denoting a prediction about a future occurence of rain.
- Both instances of "it" are sometimes called "dummy it" and "like" is a conjunction.
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I'm not sure if this is what you want.
"It seems like" is a fixed phrase.
"it is going to rain" is a present continuous followed by an infinitive denoting a prediction about a future occurence of rain.
Both instances of "it" are sometimes called "dummy it" and "like" is a conjunction.
"It seems like" is a fixed phrase.
"it is going to rain" is a present continuous followed by an infinitive denoting a prediction about a future occurence of rain.
Both instances of "it" are sometimes called "dummy it" and "like" is a conjunction.
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