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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Swooping

I read the following in the Metro UK news paper.

The patrol staff were condemned as opportunistic and cruel for swooping on the Borough Market area yesterday.

Is "swooping" a noun after a preposition "for"?

  

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Yes. It is a gerund, also called a gerundial-participial clause or a reduced clause. " I see the verb more frequently as "swoop in on".

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  • Yes.
  • It is a gerund, also called a gerundial-participial clause or a reduced clause.
  • " I see the verb more frequently as "swoop in on".
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Yes. It is a gerund, also called a gerundial-participial clause or a reduced clause. It functions as the complement (object) of the preposition "for."

I see the verb more frequently as "swoop in on".

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