Gerund?
could u describe what kind of sentence the highlighted part is?
“His wife went to Australia, taking the children with her.”
The structure is somehow vague to me! Will u tell me what the grammar’s name is?
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I'd call it an adverbial phrase,, because it tells us how she went to Australia. Some people may use very different grammar terms.
- I'd call it an adverbial phrase,, because it tells us how she went to Australia.
- Some people may use very different grammar terms.
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I'd call it an adverbial phrase,, because it tells us how she went to Australia.
Some people may use very different grammar terms.
0Abbas Rajabpour... the highlighted part ...
“His wife went to Australia, taking the children with her.”
It's a participle clause. (There is no gerund in the sentence.) Most participle clauses have an implicit subject which matches the subject of the main clause, so the subject is implicitly 'his wife'. 'taking' is the participle from w
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