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Old 20-Feb-2008, 15:46
Mohammed Abu Risha Mohammed Abu Risha is offline
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Default Re: Please parse this sentence

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And, can't we consider 'your being here' the nominal phrase and object of 'used to'?
Look

First let us agree that:

to.....here

is in fact a prepositional phrase as it has a head/preposition.

After a preposition comes either:

a noun
a noun phrase

or

a noun clause

Thereofore, "your being here" is indeed a nominal clause fucntioning as a complement for the preposition (to).

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