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Matthew1622 Posted 11 years ago
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show it trailing

One sentence in a news report confused me -- "Party leaders overwhelmingly voted to change its candidate last month after polls showed it trailing badly to the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party". Even though I can understand the sentence, I do not the the usage of "showed it trailing". Show sb doing???? What is the usage of "show" here?
  

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matthew1622 Party leaders overwhelmingly voted to change its candidate last month after polls showed it trailing badly to the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party. The antecedent of "it" is a little obscure, but it must be "the party", implicitly. matthew1622 Show sb doing?

— CalifJim

  • matthew1622 Party leaders overwhelmingly voted to change its candidate last month after polls showed it trailing badly to the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party.
  • The antecedent of "it" is a little obscure, but it must be "the party", implicitly.
  • matthew1622 Show sb doing?
  • Yes.
  • It's the same catenative pattern.
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matthew1622Party leaders overwhelmingly voted to change its candidate last month after polls showed it trailing badly to the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party.
The antecedent of "it" is a little obscure, but it must be "the party", implicitly.
matthew1622Show sb doing?
Yes. It's the same catenative pattern. [fin
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