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Clive wrote Hi With their prototype destroyed the company would be near bankruptcy Instead somebody lost over 100 million betting the wrong way I m not sure but I think betting the wrong way is gerund phrase According to what I knew gerund phrase can not function as adverb No a gerund is verb...

Hi With their prototype destroyed the company would be near bankruptcy Instead somebody lost over 100 million betting the wrong way I m not sure but I think betting the wrong way is gerund phrase According to what I knew gerund phrase can not function as adverb No a gerund is verb form that...

Gerunds are ing words used as nouns not adjectives Fishing is a pleasant activity Present Participles are ing words used as adjectives A rolling stone gathers no moss __ Both gerunds and present participles are ing forms of verbs Like verbs they may take objects Playing chess is a pleasant...

The only thing that can come after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase is a noun phrase usually a noun accompanied by its preceding determiner and perhaps an adjective A relative clause may be added The noun itself may be a gerund If the element after the candidate for a preposition...

Hello this is my first post here I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone if it s what kind of noun it s proper noun or abstract noun or etc After that I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the stanford...

Hello this is my first post here I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone if it s what kind of noun it s proper noun or abstract noun or etc After that I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the stanfard parser...

Thank you Clive What about this Please do not sit on the couch before getting permission In this case I m trying to avoid using a verb phrase after the adverb before by replacing it with what I m thinking to be a gerund noun Is this acceptable not using a verb phrase after an adverb such as...

No for him is a prepositional phrase A gerund is a verb form Although it is used as a noun the phrases that are used with it are those that are appropriate for verbs So a gerund is much more likely to be modified by adverbs Working faster than necessary doesn t interest me adverb of manner...

Taka wrote Semantically speaking I think both upwards and downwards modify the extention But my dictionaries have upwards downwards only as an adverb So I wonder if such an adverb can modify a noun Hello Taka I would agree with you upwards and downwards are adverbs here to my mind and qualify...

As per your request the following is an attempt to determine the word class amp clause type of your sentence 1 S He Vi ran turn Vt empty Vd Vf Vc Full infinitive to see Bare infinitive turn empty Verb sense see Preposition onto of in to Article definite the Article indefinite a Noun common...