Being an adjective, how can 'difficult' be the subject? It can't. She says that 'estimating' is not a gerund but is part of the verb 'is estimating,' and she says that 'most difficult' is the subject instead.

I was discussing the following sentence with my English teacher: Perhaps most difficult of all is estimating distance and speed when you are passing a car going in the same direction. She says that 'estimating' is not a gerund but is

The first and last are not nouns; they are adverbs. The second, if a noun, is a gerund. The third is just a plain old noun– I don't know what you mean by 'kinds' of nouns here.

if "after" is followed by gerund then is it an adverb or a preposition?

Use "investing." the infinitive doesn't work in this case. Some verbs take the gerund, some take the infinitive, some take the bare infinitive, some take all the above. I can't afford to invest/investing in an exercise bike.

Jaleel.nt, in the first instance, we deal with a phenomenon that is conventionally known as a passive gerund ; the whole clause with being... can be substituted with a noun phrase, eg, ...this award . Therefore, we refer to being... as a nominal

Hello, my name is Rhina Franco and I am a teacher. We are studying gerunds and infinitives. According to the books I have read, infinitives do not follow preposition; however, there is an exception to this rule as I have read. In the case of the

Hi, You don't think the English say things like this? I hate cooking Dancing is fun Drinking and driving is stupid Best wishes, Clive

It seems that the gerund isn't taught in schools in America anymore; young people don't know what it is while older people and the better educated do. What I find curious is that the English now never use a gerund. It's a very useful

When we say 'his being' we are using 'his' as a possessive pronoun. This is tantamount to saying Bob's doing... (An apostrophe here indicates possessive). And whenever one uses such a construction, although one should try to