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Sm8910 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

participles

-ing verbs are used with auxiliary verbs to form multi part verbs. but i'm confused in these scenarios

1. He is cooking (cooking here is predicate nominative, right? or is it a part of multi part verb?)

2. What happens here: He is cooking food (here "is cooking" is the verb, right?)

thanks.
  

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In both cases "is cooking" is the present progressive tense of the verb "cook". An example where "cooking" is a predicate nominative (or subject complement) is "My favourite hobby is cooking". )

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  • In both cases "is cooking" is the present progressive tense of the verb "cook".
  • An example where "cooking" is a predicate nominative (or subject complement) is "My favourite hobby is cooking".
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In both cases "is cooking" is the present progressive tense of the verb "cook".

An example where "cooking" is a predicate nominative (or subject complement) is "My favourite hobby is cooking".

(There are unusual contexts in which "cooking" in (1) could be a noun or adjective, but we may ignore those.)
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