working

[wowenglish1]

I have two questions.
I wonder if "working" is gerund or anything.
I would like to know the subject of "work"

I got my first part-time job working at a car wash.

 

[Curt Jugg]

I have two questions.
I wonder if "working" is gerund or anything.
I would like to know the subject of "work"

I got my first part-time job working at a car wash.

I am not a teacher, but as no one else has answered this post, I'll have a go.

I think "working at a car wash" is an -ing participle clause which functions as a postmodifier of the noun "job". The clause has no explicit subject but the implicit subject is "job" (his job is working at a car wash).

 

[White Hat]

I am not a teacher, but as no one else has answered this post, I'll have a go.

I think "working at a car wash" is an -ing participle clause which functions as a postmodifier of the noun "job". The clause has no explicit subject but the implicit subject is "job" (his job is working at a car wash).

"job" is a direct object, isn't it? (got what? - a job)

 

[Afit]

I have two questions.
I wonder if "working" is gerund or anything.
I would like to know the subject of "work"

I got my first part-time job working at a car wash.

The non-finite clause serves to elaborate on or further explain "my .. job". It stands in apposition to "my ... job", the preceding noun phrase.

my first part-time job = working at a car wash

Gerund.

The -ing clause may have a temporal adverbial reading too, but that would be a tad far-fetched, IMO.

I would like to know the subject of "work"

my job, my working, the speaker of " I"

 

[Curt Jugg]

"job" is a direct object, isn't it? (got what? - a job)

Indeed it is the direct object of the main clause but it also serves as the logical subject of the -ing participle clause

 

[Afit]

Indeed it is the direct object of the main clause but it also serves as the logical subject of the -ing participle clause

"Job" being the logical subject is illogical to me. How can "my job" perform the working? :-o

The clause has no explicit subject but the implicit subject is "job" (his job is working at a car wash).

His job is that he is working... ;-)
It is not his job that is doing the working; it is him that is working. ;-)

His job is working at a car wash. --> [His job] = [(his) working at a car wash]. :tick:
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Peter is working at a car wash --> [Peter] [is working] [at a car wash]. :tick:
His job is working at a car wash --> [His job] [is working] [at a car wash]. :cross:

-ing participle clause which functions as a postmodifier

Renames is more like it, IMO.

 

[Curt Jugg]

I'm sure you're right: you're an English teacher; I'm not

 

[Afit]

I'm sure you're right: you're an English teacher; I'm not

Being a teacher does not make one right. The soundness of one's argument makes one right.

 

[Curt Jugg]

Being a teacher does not make one right. The soundness of one's argument makes one right.

Oh, all right then. As you are an English teacher, your argument is more likely to be sound than mine. I've probably misunderstood what I've read in the grammar books.