Present participle ? Gerund ?
Through recent decades academic archaeologists have been urged to conduct their research and excavations according to hypothesis-testing procedures. It has been argued that we should construct our general theories, deduce testable propositions and prove or disprove them against the sampled data. In fact, the application of this 'scientific method' often ran into difficulties. The data have a tendency to lead to unexpected questions, problems and issues. Thus, archaeologists claiming to follow hypothesis-testing procedures found themselves having to create a fiction. In practice, their work and theoretical conclusions partly developed from the data which they had discovered. In other words, they already knew the data when they decided upon an interpretation. But in presenting their work they rewrote the script, placing the theory first and claiming to have tested it against data which they discovered, as in an experiment under laboratory conditions.
Find + O + OC
'having to~' is a present participle or a gerund ? It's very confusing
How can I distinguish them?
Top answer
find is a catenative verb. It takes an -ing form (participle). They found him hiding under the sofa .
- find is a catenative verb.
- It takes an -ing form (participle).
- They found him hiding under the sofa .
- Hoony How can I distinguish them?
- They're always participles when they are the second verb in a catenative construction.
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find is a catenative verb. It takes an -ing form (participle).
They found him hiding under the sofa.
HoonyHow can I distinguish them?
They're always participles when they are the second verb in a catenative construction.
CJ
0Thus, archaeologists claiming to follow hypothesis-testing procedures found themselves having to create a fiction.
Although "themselves" may be the object of "found", the underlined expression is not an object complement, but a catenative one
"Find" is a catenative verb and this is a catenative construction with the subordinate clause functioning as catenative complem
0Hoony'having to~' is a present participle or a gerund ? It's very confusing
Solve your quandary in one fell swoop.
Use modern grammar, not traditional grammar. Modern grammars were created to remove inconsistencies and vagueness of labeling that was present in traditional methods.
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