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Swapan Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

'And the melody COMING from the radio made it all impossible for us to believe that we were actually on the very known road we pass almost everyday.'
In the above sentence has 'COMING' used as continuous (was coming) form of verb, if so why not WAS before COMING or
Is it just a form of noun (COMING from COME)
  

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"coming" is a participle, and "coming from the radio" is adjectival modifying "melody". "the melody coming from the radio" is a noun phrase. This is a standard pattern in English: the man sitting at the bar the train running along the tracks the elephant wearing my reading glasses I am not convinced that the use of "all" is correct in that sentence, but this does not affect your question.

— GPY

  • "coming" is a participle, and "coming from the radio" is adjectival modifying "melody".
  • "the melody coming from the radio" is a noun phrase.
  • This is a standard pattern in English: the man sitting at the bar the train running along the tracks the elephant wearing my reading glasses I am not convinced that the use of "all" is correct in that sentence, but this does not affect your question.
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"coming" is a participle, and "coming from the radio" is adjectival modifying "melody". "the melody coming from the radio" is a noun phrase.

This is a standard pattern in English:

the man sitting at the bar
the train running along the tracks
the elephant wearing my reading glasses

I am not convinced that the use of "all" is correct in that se
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GPYI am not convinced that the use of "all" is correct in that sentence,
I am pretty sure it is not.
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Perhaps just an oversight?

'And the melody coming from the radio made it all but impossible for us to believe that we were actually on the very known road we pass almost everyday.'
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