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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...

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...

Ant_222 wrote:«It differs from the participle in being always used as a noun: It never belongs to or limits a noun.» In a sentence verbal nouns are used as regular nouns, with articles e.t.c. «It differs from the verbal noun in having the property of governing a noun (which the verbal noun has...

Grammar Geek wrote:Racial discrimination in according financial loansThat's a completely different use of the word "according" - it's more like "distributing" or "allocating" and not the idea of comporting to something, which is what we've been discussing. Does a completely different use mean...

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...

«It differs from the participle in being always used as a noun: It never belongs to or limits a noun.» In a sentence verbal nouns are used as regular nouns, with articles e.t.c. «It differs from the verbal noun in having the property of governing a noun (which the verbal noun has...

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...

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...

Nope-- only the -ing form. 'To' is a preposition: Look forward to + noun.