By Articles, Gerunds

hi, i've been struggling with coming to grips with the differences between verbal nouns and gerunds. e.g. John's singing the national anthem bothered me. or John's singing of the national anthem bothered me.which is correct, and in the second case is 'singing' a gerund or...

Hi, thank you.Why do you think RayH seemed to have said this has to be "the fearful wailing"?1)He heard a fearful wailing of a dogI think he said it has to be:2)He heard the fearful wailing of a dogI think RayH is correct but I also think no. 1 can be correct under a right situation. I...

Fine, especially because of the adjectival attribute. Adjectives tend to enable the use of an indefinite article in many contexts. Examples: Birds were flying in the sky. Birds were flying in a blue sky.I had lunch. I had an early lunch.I saw George Bush on TV last night. I saw a sad George...

Thank you.I think it would be OK to speak of a pen that he found which belonged to his friend, Joe, like this:I found a (one) pencil of a student. -- If the situation is that only studnents use pen (unbelievable as it sounds) and he don't know whose pen it is.I found the pencil of a student....

You need to say "the fearful wailing" in these. Also, it would be much more natural sounding to say "of his next-door neighbor's dog"

Hi,I think I found out the word 'wailing' is an uncountable noun.If that is so, then is this correct?A feartul wailing was heard.He heard a fearful wailing.I would be more comfortable if I saw something like this:He heard a fearful wailing of a dog,or,He heard a fearful wailing of the dog...

Hi everybody!I’m writing an article about sports food. Could you, please, check if my sentence grammatically correct? The second myth is about sports food overburdening the digestive and excretion systemsThanks in advance

.Yes, it is an adjective-- and being so, can divide Philip up (via secondary reclassification) into several different personalities, several different Philips, who thereby become countable.

Mother dragged a screaming Phillip to bed. How do you explain (to an TEFL student) the use of a (article) in this case. I can`t find a rule. Is screaming a gerund or a verbal noun? It`s functioning as an adjective! Thanks, Solatedo.

<<I think making instances (that is "separate occurances") is what has been done for these sentences I copied>>I agree.This is not official, but to me, where the object of "playing" is uncountable, then so is "playing." "I spent the afternoon...