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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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In this sentece, is "frustrating the students" a introductory gerund phrase?
Frustrating the other students, I once read seven pages before Ms. Widmer stopped me.
Frustrating the other students, I once read seven pages before Ms. Widmer stopped me.
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Anonymous In this sentece, is "frustrating the students" a introductory gerund phrase? Frustrating the other students, I once read seven pages before Ms. Widmer stopped me.
- Anonymous In this sentece, is "frustrating the students" a introductory gerund phrase?
- Frustrating the other students, I once read seven pages before Ms.
- Widmer stopped me.
- It's introductory, of course, but not a gerund because it doesn't function like a noun .
- You would not write any of these, because these all have a meaningless introductory noun : *Frustration, I once read seven pages before Ms.
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AnonymousIn this sentece, is "frustrating the students" a introductory gerund phrase?It's introductory, of course, but not a gerund because it doesn't function like a noun.
Frustrating the other students, I once read seven pages before Ms. Widmer stopped me.
You would not write any of these, because these all have a meaningless introd
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