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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Part of Speech Question

Hi, quick question:

In the sentence that follows, what part of speech/ tense (gerund, present progressive...) or grammatical role (subject, verb) is "loving" and why? Furthermore, what grammatical role is "someone" and why? Essentially, what do you make of this sentence?

"Loving someone is nice."

thanks,
shawn
  

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Hi Shawn, This is my take. ”Loving someone” is a noun phrase, and “loving” by itself is a gerund. “Someone” is a predicate.

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  • Hi Shawn, This is my take.
  • ”Loving someone” is a noun phrase, and “loving” by itself is a gerund.
  • “Someone” is a predicate.
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Hi Shawn,

This is my take. ”Loving someone” is a noun phrase, and “loving” by itself is a gerund. “Someone” is a predicate.
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AnonymousHi, quick question:

In the sentence that follows, what part of speech/ tense (gerund, present progressive...) or grammatical role (subject, verb) is "loving" and why? Furthermore, what grammatical role is "someone" and why? Essentially, what do you make of this sentence? It sounds a bit odd to my native ear.

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I believe that "Loving someone" is the subject and "is nice" is the predicate...
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