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    micaelo is offline Junior Member
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    Default Ing as verb or noun

    Hello! Sorry, I’ve got one of those horrible grammar terminology questions to ask you. In the following sentence, I’m supposed to decide whether the underlined part is a noun phrase or a clause:
    With two white grandfathers, and having been brought up as a Methodist in a Roman Catholic community, Walcott is ideally placed to express the Caribbean’s confusions of cultural identity.
    Apparently, it’s a noun phrase, but I can’t really see why, as the verb is declined as a present perfect passive, and so, to my understanding, is working as a verb. Could someone help me with this one, please?

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    Default Re: Ing as verb or noun

    Quote Originally Posted by micaelo View Post
    With two white grandfathers, and having been brought up as a Methodist in a Roman Catholic community, Walcott is ideally placed to express the Caribbean’s confusions of cultural identity.
    Apparently, it’s a noun phrase, but I can’t really see why, as the verb is declined as a present perfect passive, and so, to my understanding, is working as a verb. Could someone help me with this one, please?
    I think it's a noun phrase, too. Having been brought up= the bringing up of...=his education

    Actually, if we translated this to Spanish we would have to say: , y su educación como...., where it is very clear.

    cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by heidita View Post
    I think it's a noun phrase, too. Having been brought up= the bringing up of...=his education

    Actually, if we translated this to Spanish we would have to say: , y su educación como...., where it is very clear.

    cheers
    My impression is that it's a participal clause. There is a good discussion about these here: BBC World Service | Learning English | Learn it

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    Default Re: Ing as verb or noun

    Actually, Heidita, I think the translation into Spanish should be "Y habiendo sido educado ..." which I think is a clause too, so I'm afraid that doesn´t help.

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