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SuperESL Posted 14 years ago
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(1)"Your going there is not going to help."
(2)"Your finishing [of] your homework is a very important step."
(3)"The Party's convening [of] a Congress last September was a wrong move."
(4)"The Party's placing [of] supporters in important government positions is nothing but shameless horse-trading."

I am sure that there are better ways to phrase these sentences, but strictly on grammatical grounds: do they work, and is the [of] necessary in sentences 2-4? Thank you so much.

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SuperESL strictly on grammatical grounds: do they work Yes. SuperESL is the [of] necessary in sentences 2-4? Strictly speaking, no, but you'll probably see it less in constructions like (2), where you only have a single personal pronoun-determiner, and you'll see it more in more complex constructions like (3) and (4).

— CalifJim

  • SuperESL strictly on grammatical grounds: do they work Yes.
  • SuperESL is the [of] necessary in sentences 2-4?
  • Strictly speaking, no, but you'll probably see it less in constructions like (2), where you only have a single personal pronoun-determiner, and you'll see it more in more complex constructions like (3) and (4).
  • In (4) you have the option of replacing the -ing with a "real noun" ( placement ), and when that situation occurs, the "real noun" is usually preferred (with the 'of').
  • The Party's placement of supporters ...
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SuperESLstrictly on grammatical grounds: do they work
Yes.
SuperESLis the [of] necessary in sentences 2-4?
Strictly speaking, no, but you'll probably see it less in constructions like (2), where you only have a single personal pronoun-determiner, and you'll see it more in more complex constructions like (3) and (4).
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