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"As pets being welcome, she stayed at the hotel with her dog."
In the sentence about which you are asking, the word being is a present participle, and is used in a manner that is awkward. The subordinating conjunction as normally would introduce a dependent ...
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Hear Me Roar Vs Hear Me Roaring?
It's a quote. One of the very first anthems of the women's movement was Helen Reddy's 1970s hit "I Am Woman" (see Wikipedia for the song's history). Its opening lines are
I am woman, hear me roar
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The correct negative form (past participle)
Both ways are grammatical. In some cases, one form will be more idiomatic than another form, but there is no general rule as to which one you should use.
All the following sentences are correct:
Our ...
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Is the past participle becoming obsolete? (I have went)
I think this is an example of "recency illusion," which you described very well as the situation where "increasing observation" is caused by "increasing awareness."
From one point of view, the past ...
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How many parts of speech can a word be at the same time?
Yes
There are constructions called zeugmas (after Greek ζεῦγμα, 'a yoking') where a word or phrase is intentionally made to apply to two or more others in a sentence despite functioning differently ...
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How many parts of speech can a word be at the same time?
How about "splashing is forbidden?" Splashing seems to function as either a noun or a verb.
It could be modified by an adverb to fit the verb test:
Loudly splashing is forbidden.
Or it could ...
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"I hate Jill singing those songs." = "I hate Jill when she is singing those songs."?
I would interpret them differently.
"I hate Jill singing those songs" implies that you hate her actions (singing) when she sings those songs.
Whereas "I hate Jill when she is singing those songs" ...
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How many parts of speech can a word be at the same time?
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Is it ever possible for a sentence to have a word in it
that is simultaneously more than one single part of speech
in that sentence, under the same parse and meaning?
So, if a ...
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What is the hidden subject of "making" (particple) in the following sentence?
1: Yakkleman Skin Care has signed a deal with NutriSpark Online Shopping, making them the only retailer with access to our products
The "hidden subject" of making is [the fact that] ...
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"What I'm doing is watching TV." — Why does it have to be the gerund-participle ('watching')?
I don't know the right way of analysing this, but it seems to me to have to do with grammatical aspect. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Huddleston and Pullum) interprets English as ...
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The reason being
Early examples of the expression from transcripts
The phrase "the reason being is that..." appears in Google Books search results going back to the late 1960s—initially in reports of ...
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How many parts of speech can a word be at the same time?
Since the same words can be adjectives and adverbs, sentences could be constructed where the word modifies a noun and a verb:
She is and runs fast.
While others cheat, my children are and play ...
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Rescue dogs vs rescued dogs
A rescue dog is something quite different from a rescued dog.
From Wikipedia:
A rescue dog is a dog that has been placed in a new home after being abused, neglected, or abandoned by its previous ...
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Is there such a thing as a participle phrase?
[1] Look at the girl dancing on the stage.
[2] Look at the dancing girl.
[3] They are a happily married couple.
[4] The Japanese are now a meat-eating people.
As you say, in [1] "dancing on the ...
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What are these "[verb]-ing" forms called?
These are verbs heading clauses, which in turn are functioning as the Complements of prepositions. In traditional grammar (where we don't distinguish carefully between what something is and what it is ...
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How many parts of speech can a word be at the same time?
"The window was broken by John."
It doesn't seem simple to me to demonstrate that "broken" in this sentence is not simultaneously a verb and an adjective.
Participles
Participles are one of the ...
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Hear Me Roar Vs Hear Me Roaring?
Compare these two sentences:
You're gonna hear me roar.
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You're gonna hear me roaring.
The first is far more definite and assertive. It has a defiant, almost challenging, quality to it. I'm ...
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"I hate Jill singing those songs." = "I hate Jill when she is singing those songs."?
"I hate Jill singing those songs" could only be interpreted as meaning something like "I hate it when Jill sings those songs", "I hate that Jill sings those songs", or ""I hate Jill's singing those ...
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Gerund or Participle?
I agree with johnlee that "waiting" in this sentence should be classified as a participle, not a gerund, if you are working in a framework that makes that distinction.
(Comments by members ...
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Why are people leaving out the indefinite article 'a' before seemingly random nouns?
In English, when you are talking about a place being attended as an institution, we often leave out the article; but the choice of which institutions you can do this with varies according to the ...
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What is the difference between an adjective and a noun modifier?
Grammatical terms are not always used consistently in different sources. In general, the term noun modifier is usually a broad term, often encompassing adjectives, nouns used to modify other nouns, ...
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Struggling with participle phrases - adjectival vs adverbial
(1) Turning into the parking lot, the girl could see that lines were already forming.
(2) It came to pass that, settling permanently in Paris, he too forgot the child, especially when the Revolution ...
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adjective vs adverb for a gerund
"Informally" is correct, as your example with "occasionally observing" shows. Here "noting" is a gerund, not a verbal noun. Whereas verbal nouns are modified by ...
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The correct negative form (past participle)
Where there is the negated adjective, it is usually the idiomatic choice:
1 We complained but as usual our voices went unheard.
1' *We complained but as usual our voices went not heard.
(went ...
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Where can negation happen in participle phrases? Are both correct? "Not having heard the news…" and "Having not heard the news…"
They both sound fine to me (I use and hear both often).
The second version "Having not heard ..." is, to my ears, a little more emphatic (that you really didn't hear the news).
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Comma before adverbial participial phrases (reduced adverbial phrases) and participial prepositions
There a couple of misconceptions here. The first is about reduced participial phrases. Generally this means transforming a clause, which has a finite verb, into a phrase with a non-finite verb. Thus
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How many parts of speech can a word be at the same time?
To be really pedantic, the definition of a verb (for instance) is different from the definition of a noun, even if the same word is used, so at one level your intuition is correct.
As a practical ...
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How many parts of speech can a word be at the same time?
From my experience, it strikes me that words which would ordinarily be (or be like) two parts of speech have been separated into different categories, thus creating "new" parts of speech. If I'm not ...
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Why is "banging his nose" possible but "answering the phone'' not possible?
Both are grammatical.
He banged his nose while he ran into the wall. So you can say "He ran into the wall, banging his nose."
If he answered the phone while he got out of bed you can say "He ...
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