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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary
To help her going
“It seems to me she’s got herself into an impossible position now, because having expected this meeting to help her going into conference, it’s hindered her,” he said.
(The Guardian.)
Does her modify going or is it a direct object of the verb help in the sentence above?
(The Guardian.)
Top answer
It's the latter.
- It's the latter.
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It seems to me she’s got herself into an impossible position now, because having expected this meeting to help her going into conference, it’s hindered her,” he said.
"Her" is Od of "help". Personal pronouns do not function as modifiers.
Normally, non-finite clauses functioning as internal complement of a verb illustrate the catenative construction.
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