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Taka Posted 15 years ago
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Showing
Being gentle to yourself is a bit like parenting yourself, showing the patience, encouragement, and kindness to yourself that you may have received from your parents as a child or given to your own children.
Question#1: About 'showing', is it a gerund like 'parenting' in front? Or is it a reduced adverbial clause?
Question#2: About 'to yourself', is it a part of 'show X to Y' as in that of, say, 'show it to me'? Or is it a modifier of the series of nouns described in front (i.e the patience, encouragement, and kindness)? Or is it a modifier of (the) kindness only?
Question#1: About 'showing', is it a gerund like 'parenting' in front? Or is it a reduced adverbial clause?
Question#2: About 'to yourself', is it a part of 'show X to Y' as in that of, say, 'show it to me'? Or is it a modifier of the series of nouns described in front (i.e the patience, encouragement, and kindness)? Or is it a modifier of (the) kindness only?
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Taka Question#1: About 'showing', is it a gerund like 'parenting' in front? Yes. It's like giving the definition of 'parenting yourself' using the same grammatical structure.
- Taka Question#1: About 'showing', is it a gerund like 'parenting' in front?
- Yes.
- It's like giving the definition of 'parenting yourself' using the same grammatical structure.
- Taka Question#2: About 'to yourself', is it a part of 'show X to Y' as in that of, say, 'show it to me'?
- Exactly.
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TakaQuestion#1: About 'showing', is it a gerund like 'parenting' in front?Yes. It's like giving the definition of 'parenting yourself' using the same grammatical structure.
TakaQuestion#2: About 'to yourself', is it a part of 'show X to Y' as in that of, say, 'show it to me'?Exactly. (No, it's not those other t
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