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The food in these places has been proven to be very unhealthy, and much of the advertising is targeted at children, thus ensuring that they constitute the bulk of the customers of these establishments.
What's the form and function of what comes after 'thus'.
(Sorry, I'm posting with my mobile phone, so there is no option to underline the intended part in question.)
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Persian Learner ensuring that they constitute the bulk of the customers of these establishments A non-finite clause (form). A complement in adverbial thus ensuring that they constitute the bulk of the customers of these establishments . (function)
- Persian Learner ensuring that they constitute the bulk of the customers of these establishments A non-finite clause (form).
- A complement in adverbial thus ensuring that they constitute the bulk of the customers of these establishments .
- (function)
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Persian Learnerensuring that they constitute the bulk of the customers of these establishments
A non-finite clause (form).
A complement in adverbial thus ensuring that they constitute the bulk of the customers of these establishments. (function)
0Persian LearnerWhat's the form and function of what comes after 'thus'.
It's a participle clause. It tells the result of targeting the advertising at children, so it's an "adverbial of result"
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