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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Restrictive or adjectival participal phrase?
Hi. I sometimes have difficulty seeing the difference between these sentences. Thank you for sending me an email inviting me to attend your event. Here, I think the part "inviting me to attend your event" could be an adjectival phrase that could be written like this:
Thank you for sending me an email (that is) inviting me to attend your event. (This sentence looks awkward, I might say)
Or I think it could be just a participle phrase acting restrictively (if I phrased it correctly).
I think the following is an example that shows the use of a participle phrase acting restrictlvely and not an adjectival phrase.
eg,
He was standing around pointing at the bird up in the air.
Thank you for sending me an email (that is) inviting me to attend your event. (This sentence looks awkward, I might say)
Or I think it could be just a participle phrase acting restrictively (if I phrased it correctly).
I think the following is an example that shows the use of a participle phrase acting restrictlvely and not an adjectival phrase.
eg,
He was standing around pointing at the bird up in the air.
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Thank you for sending me an email inviting me to attend your event He was standing around pointing at the bird up in the air. They are both partciple phases with adverbial property.
- Thank you for sending me an email inviting me to attend your event He was standing around pointing at the bird up in the air.
- They are both partciple phases with adverbial property.
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Thank you for sending me an email inviting me to attend your event
He was standing around pointing at the bird up in the air.
They are both partciple phases with adverbial property.
He was standing around pointing at the bird up in the air.
They are both partciple phases with adverbial property.
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