Grammatical function of this "ing" phrase
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They knew about flowers and fruits growing on trees, but this was the first time they’d heard someone mention trees on which money grew.
The Prepositional Phrase "about flowers and fruits" functions as the complement of the verb "know" there. Am I right about it? But what is the function of "growing on trees", please? Is it part of the Prepositional Phrase, ie., function within the Prepositional Phrase?
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They knew about flowers and fruits growing on trees , but this was the first time they’d heard someone mention trees on which money grew. The whole underlined PP is complement of "know". The preposition about is head of the PP with the clause flowers and fruits growing on tree s functioning as its complement.
- They knew about flowers and fruits growing on trees , but this was the first time they’d heard someone mention trees on which money grew.
- The whole underlined PP is complement of "know".
- The preposition about is head of the PP with the clause flowers and fruits growing on tree s functioning as its complement.
- Flowers and fruits is subject of the clause and growing on trees is predicate.
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They knew about flowers and fruits growing on trees, but this was the first time they’d heard someone mention trees on which money grew.
The whole underlined PP is complement of "know".
The preposition about is head of the PP with the clause flowers and fruits growing on trees functioning as its complement. Flowers and fruits is subject of the c
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