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WHIZZO  +  937181 Sun, 11 Oct 09 12:04 AM
In the following sentence: "One teacher neatly described the teacher role as being blurred between teacher,psychlogist and friend."

How could I analyze "...as being blurred between ..."?
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Gleb_Chebrikoff  +  937498 Sun, 11 Oct 09 06:26 AM
WHIZZO,


the same question was already asked some days ago. For further information, see http://www.englishforums.com/English/AnalyisOfASentence/lddbh/post.htm#935373.


I have strong grounds to believe that 'being blurred...' is a nominal -ing participle clause functioning as a prepositional objective complement, since it complements the preposition 'as'.


Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff.
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Anonymous, 46 days ago
Whizzo: Perhaps there are at least three ways to express your sentence: (1) He described the teacher's role as BEING BLURRED between instructor and friend, (2) He described the tescher's role as BLURRED between instructor and friend, (3) He described the teacher's role TO BE BLURRED between instructor and friend.  George Curme, the American grammarian, said the first sentence is the most "descriptive." He (subject) - described (verb) - the teacher's role (object) - as (some grammarians would say that "as" in this sentence is "grammatically superfluous but rhetorically called for." That is, it would be "good" English without it.  With it, the sense of the sentence is more smoothly brought out. Therefore, some call it an introductory word or "expletive."  Others prefer "preposition" or even "conjunction." - being blurred (Professor Curme calls this a "present passive participle," referring to "role" - between instructor and friend (prepositional phrase modifying "being blurred").
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