SunakshiSanjuAgg wrote:
Five new loon pairs successfully raised chicks this year, bringing to twenty-four the number of pairs actively breeding in the lakes of Massachusetts.
Isnt the bolded part an action? And it is the actionwhich has increased the number of breeding pairs not the loon pairs...
Can smone please explain?
The bolded part is a clause
Five new loon pairs -----> Raised chicks
Who raised the Chicks??Five new Loon pairs
What did Loon pairs do?? Raised
The result of this action is expressed using Verb-ing
...
