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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

English grammar

How does one parse "When dining"?
  

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Are you able to use it in a sentence,
or are you asking us to show you how to use it in a sentence?

(If you give us a sentence, we can parse the sentence.)
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Anonymous How does one parse "When dining"?
When {subject} [ is / was ] dining, {subject} ...

Is that what you had in mind?

When dining, my dog never uses a spoon.
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When my dog is dining, my dog never uses a spoon.

CJ
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I agree with CJ. In Scandinavian grammar we would say:

when - a temporal conjunction
dining - a present participle

When dining acts as an active temporal clause equivalent. I think many Britons and Americans would use the term 'reduced clause' to refer to it.

CB

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