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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Developing by afternoon

Yorkshire and Humber
Today

Occasionally sunny during the day, but cloud will tend to increase at times with a few showers developing by the afternoon. A cooler feeling day with northwesterly breezes and temperatures returning to nearer normal

https://m.bbc.co.uk/weather/2644688
please explain to me the form and function of "developing" here?
  

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Those clouds are moist and bring rain. Rain showers develop from clouds.

  • Those clouds are moist and bring rain.
  • Rain showers develop from clouds.
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Those clouds are moist and bring rain. Rain showers develop from clouds.

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Here is my analysis:

Form: gerund-participle verbal

Function: A modifier of 'showers'

It's also head of the gerund-participial non-finite clause "developing by the afternoon".

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