Tom has a book describing about role of sport in our life

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describe: give a detailed account in words of

Therefore, your sentence, as written, says:

Tom has a book giving a detailed account in words OF ABOUT role of sport in our life.

Be careful you don't fall into the habit of adding redundant prepositions e.g. 'return back from holidays'
and
‘take something off of the shelf;
‘he turned off of the road’
‘it lowers down your self-esteem’


There are two ways to write your sentence:

"Tom has a book describing the role of sport in our lives." ('our' is plural, so 'lives' is plural)
In the sentence, ‘describing’ is a verb form used as an attributive adjective and is called a ‘verbal adjective’, referring to the noun ‘book’, giving us specific information about the book.

Another way of writing the sentence is:
"Tom has a book that describes the role of sport in our lives."
If you think about the discussions of 'that' versus 'which', you will recognise this as a restrictive clause beginning with 'that', identifying the specific book, of all the books Tom owns, the speaker is referring to.

So - the first way of writing the sentence 'is giving us specific information about the book'.
The second way 'is identifying the specific book, of all the books Tom owns, the speaker is referring to'.

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"Be careful you don't fall into the habit of adding redundant prepositions..."

the sentence must be written as followed:

Tom has a book describing about sport in our lives

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A book about the role of sport…

A book describing the role of sport.

(i). don't forget the article
(ii) 'about' is appropriate in the first sentence; but the meaning of 'to describe' makes 'about' redundant in the sentence:

A book describing about the role of sport.

nice explanation!!!

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