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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.

MrPedantic · Accepted Answer

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

K.O. · Answer

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

with the refugees and misery/ object. Thanks MrP.

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MrPedantic · Answer

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 continuous

to deal with - phrasal verb (prepositional), to-infinitive

the refugees and the misery - two objects coordinated by 'and'

(I expect there are other ways of parsing it.)

The present continuous emphasises the fact that the action is taking place as the speaker utters the sentence.

MrP

Anonymous · Answer

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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