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A man is selling vegetables and fruits.A man selling vegetables and fruits.Please suggest these sentences and with "is" and without it. What are the differences between them?

Rover_KE · Accepted Answer

The first is a grammatical sentence; the second is not a sentence as it has no finite verb.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

kumenglishA man is selling vegetables and fruits.

A man is selling vegetables and fruit. => That is a good sentence.

kumenglishA man selling vegetables and fruits.

That is a noun phrase. A noun phrase can be a subject or object (complement) in a sentence. See all the different ways in which it can be used.

A man selling vegetables and fruit is in the central market now.  (subject)
You can find a man selling vegetables and fruit in the market.  (complement / object)
She is in love with a man selling vegetables and fruit in the market. (complement / object of a preposition)
Mr. Agarwal, a man selling vegetables and fruit in the market, will be retiring next year.  (apposition) 
She gave a man selling vegetables and fruit a tip of 5 rupees.  (Indirect object)

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