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Hi, This really troubles me. Please refer to the sentences. 1) I like eating ice cream. 2) I like to eat ice cream. Some of the web sites that I have been to suggest no difference in meaning, however I was told that using a gerund as the direct object of the verb 'like' denotes a habitual...

Schetin wrote: Goodman wrote:... but all in all, the grammar rules still applies. Simply, "in according" is bad English. The logical usage with "according" are "according to" or "in accordance with/ to". Some absolutely agianst the usage of "In accordance to", but this is used quite often. I...

Goodman wrote:... but all in all, the grammar rules still applies. Simply, "in according" is bad English. The logical usage with "according" are "according to" or "in accordance with/ to". Some absolutely agianst the usage of "In accordance to", but this is used quite often. I am not a...

Schetin wrote: Ruslana wrote:...they don't make a big difference to me because of Russian, for in the latter we can use the same phrase to translate both "in accordance with" and "according to". In Russian these do make difference. The verb 'accord' is transitive, so gerund should be...

Ruslana wrote:...they don't make a big difference to me because of Russian, for in the latter we can use the same phrase to translate both "in accordance with" and "according to". In Russian these do make difference. The verb 'accord' is transitive, so gerund should be transitive too. If you...

Anonymous wrote:Hi, quick question: In the sentence that follows, what part of speech/ tense (gerund, present progressive...) or grammatical role (subject, verb) is "loving" and why? Furthermore, what grammatical role is "someone" and why? Essentially, what do you make of this sentence? It...

Optimus wrote:Hello. First, in the following sentence, is 'adding' a gerund?Adding comments (has/have) been disabled for this video.If yes, is 'comments' part of this gerund also? Second, what should follow 'adding comments'? While 'comments' is a plural, shouldn't 'adding comments' be...

MrPedantic wrote: User_gary wrote: Thank you everybody especially phillip eating is a gerund that I understood from your explanation. then, can we say oranges is object complement or subject complement or something. Hello UG 1. I like eating oranges. The underlined part is a gerund...

User_gary wrote: Thank you everybody especially phillip eating is a gerund that I understood from your explanation. then, can we say oranges is object complement or subject complement or something. Hello UG 1. I like eating oranges. The underlined part is a gerund phrase, and is the...

User_gary wrote: Philip wrote: User_gary wrote: I am eating oranges everyday in the morning. Here `eating' is adjective (i.e. past participle) or noun (i.e. Gerund)? What you have is the present continuous tense.....and it really should be "I eat oranges every day....." OK, Thank...