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I'm practicing for my grammar exam and found this old exam question, can someone tell me how they would analyze this so i can compare with my own suggestion.
The Bush administration admits it was mistaken in believing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
‘That Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.’ is a noun clause as it answers the question ‘in believing what?’
Yes, that's it! It is the direct object of the verb "believing". If I broke it down further, I believe that the "in believing" has been reduced from "when it believed", so that may be the "adverbial" you are thinking of. I'm not sure if "in -ing" is an established adverb reduction though...interesting!
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