I’d call it either a reduced adverbial clause or a nonfinite adverbial clause, depending on whether my audience was using a system that required finiteness
for clausehood.
---- Bill Spruiell
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Scott Woods
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:42 PM
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Subject: grammar question: "while running"
Dear List,
How would you analyze "while running" in the sentence below?
I yelled a command while running.
Thanks,
Scott Woods
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