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Hello dear experts. Is this a reduced adverbial clause? If yes can you write the full sentence
It was disappointing to lose, having got this far in the competition
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It was disappointing to lose, having got this far in the competition . No: it's not a reduced clause. It's a non-finite gerund-participial clause functioning as an adjunct (of implicated reason).
- It was disappointing to lose, having got this far in the competition .
- No: it's not a reduced clause.
- It's a non-finite gerund-participial clause functioning as an adjunct (of implicated reason).
- Like most non-finite clauses, it has no overt subject, though we understand the subject to be some person mentioned in the prior discourse, or more probably the speaker.
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It was disappointing to lose, having got this far in the competition.
No: it's not a reduced clause. It's a non-finite gerund-participial clause functioning as an adjunct (of implicated reason).
Like most non-finite clauses, it has no overt subject, though we understand the subject to be some person mentioned in the prior discourse, or more probably the speaker
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