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It's possible you may be confusing that sentence with the present continuous tense, which takes (as an example) the form of
Subject/auxiliary verb/ main verb [+ -ing]
as in this example sentence:
“We are playing football.”
“We,” of course, is the subject. “Are” is the auxillary verb and “playing” is the main verb.
One can ask the question: “What are [we] doing?” Answer: “We are playing.” Since “playing” is descriptive of an action, then “playing” becomes [or one could say is] the verb.
"Having," in the example that was mentioned a few posts back, is not descriptive of any kind of action taking place.
Don
Last edited by Dr. Drib; 10-07-2011 at 08:35 AM.
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