Whether learning
I saw the above on my Facebook.
Is "whether learning online...safe" a participle phrase modifying the subject "they" and thus functioning as an adjective?
Do we always remove "to be" verbs from those participle phrases?
I get confused by this "with phrases:with access...Tutor. What does it Modify here? I see them a lot (with phrases and they also mostly lack to be verbs).
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Whether learning online or face-to-face when it’s safe , they'll be joining a supportive and inspirational learning community. No, it doesn't modify "they". It's an interrogative clause functioning as an adjunct in an 'exhaustive conditional' construction.
- Whether learning online or face-to-face when it’s safe , they'll be joining a supportive and inspirational learning community.
- No, it doesn't modify "they".
- It's an interrogative clause functioning as an adjunct in an 'exhaustive conditional' construction.
- The sentence means that they''ll be joining a supportive and inspirational learning community if they are learning online, and they'll be joining a supportive and inspirational learning community if they are learning face-to-face when it's safe.
- And these two conditions exhaust the options, so we know that they'll be joining a supportive and inspirational learning community.
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Whether learning online or face-to-face when it’s safe, they'll be joining a supportive and inspirational learning community.
No, it doesn't modify "they". It's an interrogative clause functioning as an adjunct in an 'exhaustive conditional' construction.
The sentence means that they''ll be joining a supportive and inspirational learning community if
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