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Mickey Mouse 8241 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

"We’d like to see the baby’s weight going steadily up."

"We’d like to see the baby’s weight going steadily up."

Here, "going up" is gerund , and 'baby's weight' is the subject of gerund? Is my analysis correct?

Is this a kind of example of possessive in gerund?

  

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In the grammatical analysis I am accustomed to, going is a present participle due to the active voice use of see , and the baby's weight is the grammatical object of the infinitive to see. No doubt there are other opinions. CB

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  • In the grammatical analysis I am accustomed to, going is a present participle due to the active voice use of see , and the baby's weight is the grammatical object of the infinitive to see.
  • No doubt there are other opinions.
  • CB
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In the grammatical analysis I am accustomed to, going is a present participle due to the active voice use of see, and the baby's weight is the grammatical object of the infinitive to see. No doubt there are other opinions.

CB

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Mickey Mouse 8241Is this a kind of example of possessive in gerund?

No, if you mean the possessive form of a gerund.

The subject of a gerund is possessive case, but that is not the case in your sentence.


I like her singing.

You sentence is the example of a non-finite clause (the baby’s weight going steadily up) bei

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