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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Words consisting of only two gerund phrase
I have extracted the following text from a comic forum.
Story started good. With a pretty decent premise, that until the author decide to go for political drama. The thing is, the author understanding of politics was not very deep. It's very obvious he was not a college graduate with major in politic, but I at least expect him to do a good research about the subject. But he didn't, thus my squirming in seat every 2 chapters and saying, "wait, I don't think he know what that word means", or "no, that's not how that [political/economic idea] works".
1) I'd like to know what role "that" in bold plays.
2) I'd like to know whether I can use the words consisting of only one or more gerund phrases as in the underlined words.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Story started good. With a pretty decent premise, that until the author decide to go for political drama. The thing is, the author understanding of politics was not very deep. It's very obvious he was not a college graduate with major in politic, but I at least expect him to do a good research about the subject. But he didn't, thus my squirming in seat every 2 chapters and saying, "wait, I don't think he know what that word means", or "no, that's not how that [political/economic idea] works".
1) I'd like to know what role "that" in bold plays.
2) I'd like to know whether I can use the words consisting of only one or more gerund phrases as in the underlined words.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
I thinks that is parallel structure: my squirming in seat every 2 chapters and saying... The problem is the first gerund phrase is too long. That: all the things go well until...
- I thinks that is parallel structure: my squirming in seat every 2 chapters and saying...
- The problem is the first gerund phrase is too long.
- That: all the things go well until...
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I thinks that is parallel structure:
my squirming in seat every 2 chapters and saying...
The problem is the first gerund phrase is too long.
That: all the things go well until...
my squirming in seat every 2 chapters and saying...
The problem is the first gerund phrase is too long.
That: all the things go well until...
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Thank you, No Name One, for your valuable answer. 
I think "i
That: all the things go well until...
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