grammatical function
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What is the grammatical function of OCEAN-GOING in this sentence?
Without these trees, statues could no longer be moved and nor could ocean-going canoes be built
Thanks a lot
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updated Oct 24, 2010
posted by jortosar
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"Ocean-going" is an adjective is this sentence. The "ocean-going" canoes are made for canoeing (sailing the canoe) in the ocean.
updated Oct 25, 2010
posted by athegr8
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I'm not sure what you're looking for but I think you could say that 'ocean-going' is a morpheme, a compound word - noun + ing participle.
See pg 50 
updated Oct 24, 2010
posted by Kiwi-Girl
ja ja but adjective is so much easier to say lol, well done athegr8 :) - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 24, 2010
talk about make things so much harder than they need to be MC! - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 24, 2010
;) - athegr8, Oct 24, 2010
