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K.O. Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

to be parsed

We were spared the storm's fury but are now having to deal with the refugees and the misery -

Hi, please parse this sentence above and many thanks in advance.
  

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Hello KO Did you want to try to parse it yourself first? Then we'll check it for you. Here are the main sections: We were spared / the storm's fury // but are now having to deal / with the refugees and the misery - MrP

  • Hello KO Did you want to try to parse it yourself first?
  • Then we'll check it for you.
  • Here are the main sections: We were spared / the storm's fury // but are now having to deal / with the refugees and the misery - MrP
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Hello KO

Did you want to try to parse it yourself first? Then we'll check it for you.

Here are the main sections:

We were spared / the storm's fury // but are now having to deal / with the refugees and the misery -

MrP
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Hello MrP, How are you?

I understand the theacher attitude that you have and I'm tentatively going to try it.

We were spared/ passive mood- simple past- subject

the storm's fury/ object

but are now having to deal/ present continuous- and can you please explain why it is in a progressive tense instead of a simple 'have to' like, but we have to deal

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Hello K.O.

That looks good - here's a little more detail:

Clause 1

We - subject

were spared - passive voice, past tense

the storm's fury - noun phrase, object (the storm's - possessive; fury - direct object)

Clause 2

but - coordinating conjunction

now - adverb

are having - modal verb, present con
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A man, who I saw last week, is now doing some special things about nature and may be some echological statements.

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