Re: Please parse this sentence I got used to your being here. 1. How would this sentence be parsed? A simple declarative statement (sentence) in which: I: the subject got: main verb used: adjective, characterizing the subject ‘I’ to: preposition, joining the noun phrase ‘your being here’ to the adjective ‘used’ your being here: noun phrase, object of the sentence your: pronoun being: gerund here: as an adjective (not adverb), modifying the gerund ‘being’. It’sused here for emphasis; as an adverb, modifying the verbal aspect of the gerund. 2. Is 'used to' a prepositional verb? See 1. above. 3. How does 'here', which is an adverb, modify 'being', which is a gerund (noun)? See 1. above. 4. What if 'your' was replaced with 'you', would the object of 'to' be a fused participle of you and being? You can’t. It would become ungrammatical as ‘being’ is a gerund (verbal noun), it must be preceded by the possessive form of the pronoun ‘your’ and not ‘you’. |