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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
There is so much going on in the place.
There is so much going on in the place.
I cannot analyze the sentence. especially 'going on' here in the sentence, 'so much' modifies 'going on' and 'going on' here is a gerund or 'going on' modifies 'so much' behind and here 'going on' is a present participle?
Or this is a fixed expression, 'there is '-ing'?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.
I cannot analyze the sentence. especially 'going on' here in the sentence, 'so much' modifies 'going on' and 'going on' here is a gerund or 'going on' modifies 'so much' behind and here 'going on' is a present participle?
Or this is a fixed expression, 'there is '-ing'?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.
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Hans51 There is so much going on in the place. There is so much (activity) (that is) [going on = happening] in the place. ~ There is a lot of activity happening there.
- Hans51 There is so much going on in the place.
- There is so much (activity) (that is) [going on = happening] in the place.
- ~ There is a lot of activity happening there.
- CJ
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Hans51There is so much going on in the place.There is so much (activity) (that is) [going on = happening] in the place.
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There is a lot of activity happening there.
CJ
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