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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Part of speech
What part of speech is lurking here?
Among desert-living peoples, birds' movements are used to indicate the presence of water, and the alarm calls of birds are recognized by some as warnings of snakes or of some other dangerous animals lurking.
Among desert-living peoples, birds' movements are used to indicate the presence of water, and the alarm calls of birds are recognized by some as warnings of snakes or of some other dangerous animals lurking.
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Just a guess: warnings of lurking gerund - object of preposition "of."
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There is an interesting discussion of this very same sentence here:
http://www.englishpage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12341
http://www.englishpage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12341
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