OldVolMan
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Please stop.
The present participle form of a verb can be used as an adjective.
Hog used it as a verb with the helper are.
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It can be a verb but not in the way it was used.
You is the subject. Are deteriorating is the verb. It is the direct object there.Everything comes full circle and now self defined liberals like yourself are not advancing the country, you are deteriorating it.
This is the sentence in question: "Everything comes full circle and now self defined liberals like yourself are not advancing the country, you are deteriorating it."You is the subject. Are deteriorating is the verb. It is the direct object there.
You're wrong.
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This is the sentence in question: "Everything comes full circle and now self defined liberals like yourself are not advancing the country, you are deteriorating it."
At best, it is improper word usage. One cannot deteriorate something. A person add add to the deterioration of something. I can't deteriorate a building.
Are you high? We still believe the ideas of natural rights, personal freedom, no monarchy and representative government, which are all tenets of Classical Liberalism.