A small clause is the syntactic equivalent of the basic proposition. Small clauses occur in sever constructions. Some examples are shown below. The small clauses are enclosed in square brackets. The ...
Baltimore Sun copy editor extraordinaire John McIntyre uses the term “dog-whistle editing” to refer to tiny editing issues that only copy editors notice (and perhaps only copy editors care about).
We normally use the progressive form with an adjective when we are talking about actions and behaviour. And being unfair in your example sentence, Boon and Nukoon, relates to somebody's behaviour of ...