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Jigneshbharati Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Not being able to

  • Analyzing your own speech from the grammar standpoint and not being able to speak spontaneously;

  • Is "not being able to speak spontaneously" a gerund phrase or a participial clause?
  • What is its subject?

  

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Jigneshbharati Is "not being able to speak spontaneously" a gerund phrase or a participial clause? A gerund phrase. e.

  • Jigneshbharati Is "not being able to speak spontaneously" a gerund phrase or a participial clause?
  • A gerund phrase.
  • e.
  • essentially noun-like.
  • Jigneshbharati What is its subject?
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JigneshbharatiIs "not being able to speak spontaneously" a gerund phrase or a participial clause?

A gerund phrase. It is, along with the "Analyzing ..." phrase, one of the "issues" mentioned in the introduction to the bullet point list, i.e. essentially noun-like.

JigneshbharatiWhat is its subject?

A subject is onl

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