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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

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In the phrase:

'Withdraw money or buy insurance, and in most cases mainframes are handling the transaction.'

What is the verb 'withdraw' referred to as, grammatically speaking?

Thanks in advance.
  

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' What is the verb 'withdraw' referred to as, grammatically speaking? It's not a very carefully worded sentence, but let's look at it. You could argue that 'withdraw; and 'buy' are imperatives.

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Hi,

In the phrase:

'Withdraw money or buy insurance, and in most cases mainframes are handling the transaction.'

What is the verb 'withdraw' referred to as, grammatically speaking?

It's not a very carefully worded sentence, but let's look at it.



You could argue that 'withdraw; and 'buy' are imperatives.



But really, I see t