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rd from him yesterday sounded very frightening. My brother’s job is designing new buildings. Predicative is an adjective that es after a linking verb. Serve as the object plement He kept me waiting for a long time. We heard someone singing in the next room. An object plement is an adjective or a noun that relates to and describes the objects of a sentence. Verbing phrase can be a verbing on its own. There can also be an object and / or adverbial after the verbing. Verbing phrases can express the time, the reason, the result, and the condition. Usually we can change verbing phrases into adverbial clauses. Can you give some examples of verbing phrases to express the time, the reason, the result, or the condition? Verbing Phrases time reason condition result Express the time Hearing the good news, he jumped with joy. = Asking around, I found there were no students taking their mobile phones to that school. = We can use clauses introduced by when and after to rewrite phrases showing the time. After he heard the good news, he jumped with joy. When I asked around, I found there were no students who took their mobile phones to that school. Express the reason He went to the pany with two of his designs, hoping to get a job there. =