Had gathered and ample resources. Could have been verb and possessive simultaneously?

  • With the strength of his squad and his financial resources, his success was guaranteed.

Could have been a model verb with “gathered”( past perfect )and a possessive verb with ample resources( past simple )at the same time?

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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
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What is perfect example sentence?

What are two different auxiliary verbs for have, have and possession? In English, able to means “even with a few holes”, but it can only mean one of those at a time. You will see that “where is the hole is'”. Can you use same word simultaneously in two senses would be a pun, like “‘I’ll never put my arm in a tiger’s mouth again,’ said Tom off-handedly? Your

sentence is perfect because the reader understands with as governing both the team and ample resources Equivalently you could have written:

With the team he had gathered and with ample resources, his success was guaranteed.

What if Eli had crossed 50 mile, but his shovel failed. And therefore what could be gone from

here?

For a listener, this sentence will be ungrammatical. Once had is received to clearly make travel to the past perfect, a listener finds it too jarring for had to switch to its possessive sense and take a shovel as an object.


I know about zeugma but don’t know if it is a figure of speech. I have understood that this means that the single word can serve as two simultaneous grammatical roles; the one that will create a dual role. I’ve never seen it done with these two senses of have, but I think it must be possible.

Answered on February 27, 2021.
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