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In college, five paragraph essays become few and far between as essay length gets longer. Can you imagine having only five paragraphs in a six-page paper?
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Please explain the use grammatical form and function of "having " in "imagine having..."?
Is "imagine" generally followed by gerund or ing form?
I am confused between the participle and gerund form.
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In college, five paragraph essays become few and far between as essay length gets longer. Can you imagine having only five paragraphs in a six-page paper ? Preliminary point: I would hyphenate "five-paragraph", making it a compound adjective.
- In college, five paragraph essays become few and far between as essay length gets longer.
- Can you imagine having only five paragraphs in a six-page paper ?
- Preliminary point: I would hyphenate "five-paragraph", making it a compound adjective.
- "Having" is a gerund-participle verb functioning as predicator in the underlined clause, functioning as complement of "imagine".
- Clausal complements of "imagine" are gerund-participials (- ing forms), not infinitivals.
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In college, five paragraph essays become few and far between as essay length gets longer. Can you imagine having only five paragraphs in a six-page paper?
Preliminary point: I would hyphenate "five-paragraph", making it a compound adjective.
"Having" is a gerund-participle verb functioning as predicator in the underlined clause, functioning as complement
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