it is a passive telling us

[moseen]

Hello all!
In the sentence below what is "telling" In terms of grammatically?

"It is understood" is a passive telling us that the author has received a particular piece of information.

 

[Matthew Wai]

In the sentence below what is "telling" In terms of grammatically?

I think you mean 'what part of speech is "telling"?'.
'Participles can act like adjectives'—quoted from http://m.page.macmillan.com/qdt/parts-of-speech

 

[moseen]

I think you mean 'what part of speech is "telling"?'.
'Participles can act like adjectives'—quoted from http://m.page.macmillan.com/qdt/parts-of-speech

Yes I mean what part of speech

 

[moseen]

I think you mean 'what part of speech is "telling"?'.
'Participles can act like adjectives'—quoted from http://m.page.macmillan.com/qdt/parts-of-speech

Can't we write that as "tell us"

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes, I mean what part of speech.

Can't we write that as "tell us"?

Take care to end every sentence with a punctuation mark.