waverider
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- The armed forces seeking to take control of the territory were brutal.
In the above original sentence, the parts of speech are:
- "The armed forces" (Subject)
- "seeking" (this gerund is a noun and not a verb. In this case, what role does it play in the sentence?)
- "to take" (this "infinitive" plays what role?)
- "control of the territory" (Object?)
- "were" (verb)
- "brutal" (adjective)
In the above original sentence, the parts of speech are:
- "The armed forces" (Subject)
- "seeking" (this gerund is a noun and not a verb. In this case, what role does it play in the sentence?)
- "to take" (this "infinitive" plays what role?)
- "control of the territory" (Object?)
- "were" (verb)
- "brutal" (adjective)