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Hi. I was looking up the word "cacophony" in the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary and it had this as an example sentence (only one given):
All around was bubbling a cacophony of voices.
I think the word "bubbling" is functioning as an adjective here, but what does the phrase "a cacophony of voices" function as? Thank you in advance for your help.
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The sentence is an inversion of "All around a cacophony of voices was bubbling". "was bubbling" is the past continuous tense of the verb "bubble".
- The sentence is an inversion of "All around a cacophony of voices was bubbling".
- "was bubbling" is the past continuous tense of the verb "bubble".
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The sentence is an inversion of "All around a cacophony of voices was bubbling". "was bubbling" is the past continuous tense of the verb "bubble".
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