Reeling

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PHOTOS: Ashwin, Jadeja and Jayant leave England reeling
http://m.rediff.com/cricket/report/photos-india-vs-england-3rd-test-day-3/20161128.htm
Is "reeling" a regular verb or "verbal" specifically gerund as noun? It is a headline so I don't if any words are omitted.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

JigneshbharatiIs "reeling" a regular verb or "verbal" specifically gerund as noun?

By "regular verb" I think you really mean "finite verb". No, it's not a finite verb. It's a non-finite verb form — a present participle — and here it is used as an adjective.

This is a causative construction like A, J, and J made England reel.

In the original sentence 'reeling' is an object-oriented secondary predicate.

CJ

Jigneshbharati · Answer

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Jigneshbharati · Answer

could just explain object oriented secondary predicate as tried to google but did get the idea? Thanks

Anonymous · Answer

Jigneshbharaticould just explain object oriented secondary predicate as tried to google but did get the idea? Thanks

Taken from Wikipedia:

"A secondary predicate is a (mostly adjectival) predicative expression that conveys information about the subject or the object but is not the main predicate of the clause."

To explain, it's a word or group of words in the predicate which acts like an adjective describing the subject or the object of the clause.

An "object-oriented" secondary predicate describes the object. In the case of the headline, the object is "England" and "reeling" is a present particle acting as an adjective describing England's state.

Here is another example of an object-oriented secondary predicate (shown in bold):

Marry drank the coffee cold.

And for comparison, here is a subject-oriented secondary predicate:

The workers went home exhausted.

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