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Old 09-Jan-2007, 17:54
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"Stapled to the back of these explanations is a highlighted section from the tentative schedule for the convention."

"Stapled to the back of ..." is a participle phrase, right? Is it acting as the subject of the sentence? So, then, it would be a gerund and would have a singular verb follow, right?


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Old 09-Jan-2007, 18:04
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"Stapled to the back of these explanations is a highlighted section from the tentative schedule for the convention."
"Stapled to the back of ..." is a participle phrase, right? Is it acting as the subject of the sentence? So, then, it would be a gerund and would have a singular verb follow, right?
Thanks a lot you all,
Rob
Stapled to the back of these explanations (there) is a highlighted section from the tentative schedule for the convention."


participle phrase -- YES
No, it modifies the nominal subject: section
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Old 09-Jan-2007, 18:07
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"Stapled to the back of these explanations is a highlighted section from the tentative schedule for the convention."
"Stapled to the back of ..." is a participle phrase, right? Is it acting as the subject of the sentence? So, then, it would be a gerund and would have a singular verb follow, right?
Thanks a lot you all,
Rob

Hi

Put it some other way :

A highlighted section...is stapled to the back of these...

Subject : section

Regards,
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Would a teacher view this post, and answer it, please?
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The subject is 'a highlighted section'; if you reverse the word order, you'll see:
A highlighted section is stapled to the back...
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