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"his hospitalization risks creating a leadership vacuum as Britain faces its worst health crisis in more than a century."
I don't understand the grammar for "creating" in this sentence. Was it "risks are creating" or is it a participle clause, and if it is a participle clause is it showing the reason or what?
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" H is hospitalization risks creating a leadership vacuum . . The syntax here is "His hospitalization risks something .
- " H is hospitalization risks creating a leadership vacuum .
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- The syntax here is "His hospitalization risks something .
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- something has to be a noun or a word like a noun, eg a pronoun, eg a noun clause, eg a gerund.
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"His hospitalization risks creating a leadership vacuum . . .
The syntax here is "His hospitalization risks something . . .
something has to be a noun or a word like a noun, eg a pronoun, eg a noun clause, eg a gerund.
creating is a gerund, ie the noun-like form of a verb. creating a leadership vacuum is a noun phrase
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