Just for fun, the Straight Dope offers a humorous look at the first sentence: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980814a.html 

The "analysis" includes a Reed-Kellogg diagram of the sentence that, in the words of the S.D. author, "looks like the Flying Wallendas playing jai alai."

Beth

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Anyone have a good resource that would provide both a name and a description of the extent of distribution of what I am loosely calling a 'reduced participial phrase' as seen in (1) below as contrasted with a more customary participial phrase in (2).

             1)   See spot run.  
              2)  See spot running.  

Phil Bralich

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