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Inchoateknowledge Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

why participle?

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00There are two important things we must do: we have to convene a meeting, the other 01font00being the retrieval of the lost animal02font00. 02br
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00IMO, the blue part is a participle phrase, and not a gerund one.02br
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00My problem is:02br
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00I do not see the participle phrase being used in conformity to the rules of that subset of the English grammar I am familiar with. 05002br
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00There are two important things we must do: we have to convene a meeting, the other 01font00is the retrieval of the lost animal02font02br
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00However, my tin non-native ears are not bothered hearing either sentence.02br
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00Any suggestion is welcome.02br
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00"a syntactic unit that functions as one of the two main constituents of a simple sentence, 01font00the other being the subject02font00, and that consists of a verb, which in English may agree with the subject in number,"02br
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