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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Being surrounded
Sitting alone and enjoying your own company is better than being surrounded by fake people.
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What is the grammatical form and function of "being"?
Is "sitting alone and enjoying your own company" a present participle or gerund phrases acting as a subject?
Are they also called non finite clauses?
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Jigneshbharati Is "sitting alone and enjoying your own company" a present participle or gerund phrases acting as a subject? It's actually a compound subject made up of two gerund phrases considered as a whole. 1) sitting alone 2)enjoying your company Jigneshbharati Are they also called non finite clauses?
- Jigneshbharati Is "sitting alone and enjoying your own company" a present participle or gerund phrases acting as a subject?
- It's actually a compound subject made up of two gerund phrases considered as a whole.
- 1) sitting alone 2)enjoying your company Jigneshbharati Are they also called non finite clauses?
- Yes.
- From a strictly grammatical point of view, they are called "gerund-participial non-finite clauses".
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JigneshbharatiIs "sitting alone and enjoying your own company" a present participle or gerund phrases acting as a subject?
It's actually a compound subject made up of two gerund phrases considered as a whole.
1) sitting alone
2)enjoying your company
JigneshbharatiAre they also called non finite clauses?
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