Knowing what...
"Knowing what Thermidor meant didn’t stop hundreds of thousands of Russian workers taking the gamble of supporting the seizure of power by a tight-knit underground party." (Guardian.)
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Knowing what Thermidor meant - a subject (a non-finite clause);
didn't stop - a predicator (a main verb);
hundreds of thousands of Russian workers taking the gamble of supporting the seizure of power by a tight-knit underground party - a direct object (a noun phrase).
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I could argue with the your direct object: hundreds of thousands of Russian workers — DO [from] taking the gamble of supporting the seizure of power by a tight-knit underground party — reduced prepositional phrase or nonfinite clause as verb complement
- I could argue with the your direct object: hundreds of thousands of Russian workers — DO [from] taking the gamble of supporting the seizure of power by a tight-knit underground party — reduced prepositional phrase or nonfinite clause as verb complement
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I could argue with the your direct object:
hundreds of thousands of Russian workers— DO
[from] taking the gamble of supporting the seizure of power by a tight-knit underground party— reduced prepositional phrase or nonfinite clause as verb complement
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