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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

The death of my father brought my whole world [crashing] down.

1. The death of my father brought my whole world crashing down.

I saw the sentence in my reference book for major verbs.
I'd like to know if "crashing" modifies "brought down" as playing the role of predicate of "my whole world."
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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As a non-technical English reader, it reads "brought my whole world into a state of crashing down" with 'crashing down' applying to 'my world'. d

— Meteorquake

  • As a non-technical English reader, it reads "brought my whole world into a state of crashing down" with 'crashing down' applying to 'my world'.
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As a non-technical English reader, it reads "brought my whole world into a state of crashing down" with 'crashing down' applying to 'my world'.
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Thank you, meteorquake, for your so very kind answer. Emotion: smile
How about "The death of my father brought my whole world down crashing."
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You're welcome Emotion: smile
"brought my whole world down crashing" sounds very unnatural - you'd not normally use such a word order.
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park sang joonbrought my whole world crashing down
It's a catenative pattern. In terms of meaning, it's somewhat like a causative construction. Compare: made my world crash down; caused my world to crash down.

'brought' is the verb of causation. "My world crashed down" is the action that was caused, which itself is a full sentence, but it's
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