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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Predicate or Clause/Phrase?

'He brought out his hand, shook water from it, staring at the bright metal in the fountain.'
Are the second and third parts of the sentence clause and phrase or sentence predicate? And why?
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Anonymous He brought out his hand, shook water from it, staring at the bright metal in the fountain The writer has omitted a coordinating conjunction: He brought out his hand and shook water from it, staring at the bright metal in the fountain. Does that help?

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  • Anonymous He brought out his hand, shook water from it, staring at the bright metal in the fountain The writer has omitted a coordinating conjunction: He brought out his hand and shook water from it, staring at the bright metal in the fountain.
  • Does that help?
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AnonymousHe brought out his hand, shook water from it, staring at the bright metal in the fountain
The writer has omitted a coordinating conjunction:

He brought out his hand and shook water from it, staring at the bright metal in the fountain.

Does that help?
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Ahh,
so is it main clause + conjunction+ connective relative clause+Conjunction(while) ? (Wild guess, this.)
Can the whole senence be considered simply as subject .
Many thanks
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No, it is simply a compound verb. The two verbs have the same subject, so instead of a compound sentence, you have a compound verb phrase

'He brought out his hand and (he) shook water from it.

If there are more verbs, they are separated by commas and the conjunction is placed before the last one.
'He brought out his hand, shook water from it
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Inteesting,
Thanks a lot.
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Anonymous'He brought out his hand, shook water from it, staring at the bright metal in the fountain.'Are the second and third parts of the sentence clause and phrase or sentence predicate? And why?Thanks
AnonymousHe brought out his hand,
It is a clause (a part of the sentence).
Anonymousshook water f
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