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Bahareh M Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Omitted "while"

You may have seen some of the same after-school television specials I did growing up.

Reference: Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

Hello,

I guess we have a "while" here, after the word "did", which has been omitted. Am I right? If so, could you please explain why the author has decided to do so?

I would be thankful of any help.

  

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Bahareh M guess we have a "while" here, after the word "did", which has been omitted. It does read like that, but I would not say anything has been omitted. That strikes me as a normal idiomatic use of the participle.

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  • Bahareh M guess we have a "while" here, after the word "did", which has been omitted.
  • It does read like that, but I would not say anything has been omitted.
  • That strikes me as a normal idiomatic use of the participle.
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Bahareh M guess we have a "while" here, after the word "did", which has been omitted.

It does read like that, but I would not say anything has been omitted. That strikes me as a normal idiomatic use of the participle.

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Bahareh MYou may have seen some ... specials that I did see while I was growing up.

It's a little arbitrary which words you consider to be omitted (See above), but the construction y

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