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Anonymous

#487809 Wed, 12 Mar 08 06:50 AM

Does the applicant have experience utilizing computerized tomography?

What is the underlined part called in English grammar? Why must the -ing form be used? Is it an adverbial, a gerund form, or something different?

and

I want to have my house painted.

What is painted called? It is not the past tense.

Thank-you kindly for your responses or comments.

Anonymous

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Mister Micawber

#487812 Wed, 12 Mar 08 06:57 AM

experience utilizing computerized tomography -- Utilizing is a gerund, and the phrase is an object complement (the object of have: experience).

Have...painted is a causative verb form, and painted is a past participle used as an object complement (of house).

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Anonymous

#488084 Wed, 12 Mar 08 05:34 PM

Thank-you very much for your prompt reply. Can you recommend a grammar book for native and near-native level speakers of English? Is there somewhere I should look on this site to learn more about advanced (to me, anyway) grammatical terms? Thank-you again, Mister Micawber.

Anonymous

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Marius Hancu

#488236 Thu, 13 Mar 08 02:14 AM

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

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Anonymous

#488241 Thu, 13 Mar 08 02:48 AM

Thank-you for your suggestion.

Anonymous

#489374 Sun, 16 Mar 08 02:54 AM

Someone recently suggested that this was a "participial something"...any ideas on that?

Do gerund clauses have to have a subject or is it simply a gerund here (no clause)?

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Clauses, Gerunds

Mister Micawber

#489380 Sun, 16 Mar 08 03:09 AM

Does the applicant have experience utilizing computerized tomography?

Some grammarians don't like the name 'gerund' and stick with 'participial form of the verb' and/or call such clauses merely ' '-ing' clauses'. If the clause serves as a noun, the -ing verb form can be called a gerund.

Utilizing tomography thrills me.
My hobby is utilizing tomography.

Such clauses don't need a subject, but have one in some constructions: His computer utilizing tomography makes it much easier for him to get his job done.