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Rambharosey Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Participle or Gerund..
The country's olympic team will be encouraged by providing monetary benefits and a special Presidential recognition.
My questions are:
1. In this sentence, I believe providing is used as a participle and not a Gerund. Is it correct?
2. The sentence is not parallel, since providing monetary benefits is a participial phrase (which is a Adjective form) while a special Presidential recognition is a noun phrase. Am I correct.
Thanks,
Bharosey.
My questions are:
1. In this sentence, I believe providing is used as a participle and not a Gerund. Is it correct?
2. The sentence is not parallel, since providing monetary benefits is a participial phrase (which is a Adjective form) while a special Presidential recognition is a noun phrase. Am I correct.
Thanks,
Bharosey.
Top answer
Hi, The country's Ol ympic team will be encouraged by providing monetary benefits and a special Presidential recognition . My questions are: 1. In this sentence, I believe providing is used as a participle and not a Gerund .
- Hi, The country's Ol ympic team will be encouraged by providing monetary benefits and a special Presidential recognition .
- My questions are: 1.
- In this sentence, I believe providing is used as a participle and not a Gerund .
- Is it correct?
- It's a gerund.
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Hi,
The country's Olympic team will be encouraged by providing monetary benefits and a special Presidential recognition.
My questions are:
1. In this sentence, I believe providing is used as a participle and not a Gerund. Is it correct?
It's a gerund. Actually, some gerunds also have a noun equivalent, which in this case is
The country's Olympic team will be encouraged by providing monetary benefits and a special Presidential recognition.
My questions are:
1. In this sentence, I believe providing is used as a participle and not a Gerund. Is it correct?
It's a gerund. Actually, some gerunds also have a noun equivalent, which in this case is
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Clive is right - it's a gerund, not a participle. In case you're interested, the grammar works this way: the expression "by providing monetary benefits and a special Presidential recognition" is a preposition phrase (PP) headed by the preposition "by". The underlined constituent is a non-finite subordinate clause with the verb "providing" as its head, which is embedded within the PP and fu
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