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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

One sentence structure

"I fail to see how satisfying a faint lust for conquest can bring any true satisfaction."

I don't get the structure of the sentence, although I can get the following sentences:

I fail to see how satisfying it is.

A faint lust for conquest can bring any true satisfaction.

  

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I fail to see how satisfying a faint **** for conquest can bring any true satisfaction. "satisfying" is a verb in this sentence. unlike in this one I fail to see how "satisfying" it is.

— Ivanhr

  • I fail to see how satisfying a faint **** for conquest can bring any true satisfaction.
  • "satisfying" is a verb in this sentence.
  • unlike in this one I fail to see how "satisfying" it is.
  • where "satisfying" is an adjective.
  • Perhaps this is what's confunsing you.
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I fail to see how satisfying a faint **** for conquest can bring any true satisfaction.


"satisfying" is a verb in this sentence.


unlike in this one


I fail to see how "satisfying" it is.


where "satisfying" is an adjective.


Perhaps this is what's confunsing you.

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I fail to see [how satisfying a faint **** for conquest] can bring any true satisfaction.

This has quite a complicated structure.

It's a catenative construction where "fail" is a catenative verb with the underlined infinitival clause as its catenative complement.

Within the infinitival clause is the bracketed subordinate interrogative claus

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