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Jigneshbharati Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
The feeling of being breathless
- Oramorph works quickly to relieve the feeling of being breathless and does not linger in your system. You will be started on a small dose of oramorph four times a day and if this seems to help you the dose can be gradually increased. You can also take extra doses when you are breathless, or before doing activities that you know will make you breathless.
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/documents/866/PIU1098(1)(ABHB)(Active)(JUNE 12).pdf
What is the grammatical form and function of "being" in "the feeling of being breathless..."?
If we remove it, would the sentence still be grammatically correct and what would it mean?
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Oramorph works quickly to relieve the feeling of being breathless and does not linger in your system. Being is a gerund-participle verb functioning as predicator in the underlined clause. The predicator cannot be dropped, though the clause could be replaced by the NP breathlessness .
- Oramorph works quickly to relieve the feeling of being breathless and does not linger in your system.
- Being is a gerund-participle verb functioning as predicator in the underlined clause.
- The predicator cannot be dropped, though the clause could be replaced by the NP breathlessness .
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Oramorph works quickly to relieve the feeling of being breathless and does not linger in your system.
Being is a gerund-participle verb functioning as predicator in the underlined clause.
The predicator cannot be dropped, though the clause could be replaced by the NP breathlessness.
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