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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?
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?
Top answer
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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