In Gerunds^x, Clauses^x

Hello esj, welcome to English Forums! It looks good to me – I won't suggest corrections, as you'll probably prefer to think up your own alternatives; but these are the parts that aren't quite correct at the moment: Here in America, I have experienced that] 'experienced that' isn't really...

May I offer my two cents? As MM explained, 'despite' is a preposition, while 'though' is a cojunction. The nature inherent in these two is different. How different? Despite + Noun Though + clause Examples: Though it rained yesterday, we went on a field trip. Despite the rain...

The second sentence is the correct form, since the perfect tenses are applicable when an indefinite time is intended, although let me say, I've often heard the first from the mouth of many native speakers. I'm more concerned with the first clause: "We'd have been done shopping..." This is,...

Ooh, yes, very nice addition, and it fits well with the ambiguity notion. If a speaker wants to express two thoughts: tense + tense, wherein 'tense' refers to a subject+verb structure, and the subject in the lesser clause is the same as the subject in the main clause, then as a means of...

I have read some books introducing the following sentences as infinitive clause. You must book early As far as my understanding, a clause contains a finite verb(verbs showing tense, person or singular \ plural. not a non-finite verb(verbs having no tense, person or singular \ plural as...

RE: The participle was there first. It was made into a gerund by the addition of the possP. Ah, yes, I see what you mean, and now it seems that we're back to square one, which, contrary to how we all must be feeling at this point, is actually a good thing. (1) *While eating lunch, I fixed...

Hello Casi 1. 'First, a possessive pronoun (possP) modifies a present participle...' Mea culpa - of course 'my' modifies 'head'. 2. Second, redundancy is the reason adverbial clauses are reduced to adverbial phrases... It seems to me that the argument in this section starts from the...

Thank you for your kind words. "Kochira kozo", as they say in Japanese. There are a few points that I'd like to address. First, a possessive pronoun (possP) modifies a present participle: EX: my aching heart Linearly, it appears that 'my' modifies 'aching', but a non-linear approach...

Well put, Komountain! Just one question: = participle' view. The only web page I can find that suggests something similar is: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gerund.html MrP

Hello MrP and Casi. It's hot hot hot! I mean our discussion. Well, I think I got more from this thread than I had bargained for. I thank you all participants for that. Now our discussion seems to have taken a new turn, moving from the issue of dangling to the nature of "-ing" in is...