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Hi, Can someone please help me? I have to do a grammar analysis of an article for homework and I am having trouble working out the difference between verbs and gerunds, particulary in one sentence of the article. I want to know how the words joining and succumbing are being used? "His...

Can someone please help me? I have to do a grammar analysis of an article for homework and I am having trouble working out the difference between verbs and gerunds, particulary in one sentence of the article. I want to know how the words joining and succumbing are being used? "His compliments...

Hi,Final 'ng' pronounced as 'n' This feature is sometimes called 'g-dropping', and takes place in gerunds, where the final 'ng' is pronounced . This is a very common feature in the speech of several Americans, no matter ethnical background. I read that, and I was wondering... Is...

... the old grammarians would have called 1.1 and 2.1 verbal nouns. No. See below. See Sect. 273 of B&S. All examples with the ---ing of --- are called gerunds there. 1.1 «The singing was excellent» I'm not sure what B&S would call this, but neither verbal noun nor gerund is...

Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know that source was so old. So, assuming the modern terminology, the term gerund comprehends a much wider class of (?)words. And the "gerunds" in the examples below are very different but all gerunds, while the old grammarians would have called 1.1 and 2.1...

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun. It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. _____________ The modern definition is given at...

«Please note that CalifJim seems to have said a gerund can have a or an before it, not a verbal noun. But you and CB seem to be saying only verbal nouns can have an adjective as well as an article. I am confused. Help.» I am sure that if CJ did say that, he should have provided some...

Clive wrote: Hi, I haven't heard the expression 'a verbal noun'. How would you define it? Yes, gerunds can have an article. Clive When I was studying Turkish, we used the term 'verbal noun' to identify a verb form made into a noun by adding suffixes to denote person, possession, time,...

Hi, I haven't heard the expression 'a verbal noun'. How would you define it? Yes, gerunds can have an article. Clive

Hi, Please tell me whether the parts mentioned are a gerund or verbal noun. 1. Doll had this writing underneath her recent posts and I think it is called her signature. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but lighting of a fire." W.B. Yeats Are 'filling' and 'lighting' gerunds or...