By Pronouns, Gerunds

Anonymous wrote: Hello, I came across this sentence recently and would like to know why "to" was used instead of "of" before the second gerund: "This opens up the possibility of attaching a service to this virtual IP and therefore to making it possible to move this service from one server to...

CalifJim wrote:If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!'Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your...

If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!' Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your students realize...

MrPedantic wrote: Hello Pinenut Would you find these as strange: 1. My mother won't admit to it. 2. My mother won't admit to it | being a serious mistake. Or (to take a random google) would you change: 3. These two principles of hospitality relate to something happening in our...

Yulysess wrote:Hi creolejazz, The rule you search lies, I think, in the grammatical unit called "Nominal Clauses/ Nominal-ing clauses, that is, participle clauses", or as pieanne illustrated above, gerunds. The commomest type of participle clause is that which has no subject. When a is subject...

MrPedantic wrote:Hello Pinenut I'm happy to remove (doing) from my answer. "We admit to X, where X is a noun phrase." Thus: 1. ...admit to his being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being" is a gerund; the underlined portion is a noun phrase, and acts as the participial object of "to". 2....

Hello Pinenut I'm happy to remove (doing) from my answer. "We admit to X, where X is a noun phrase." Thus: 1. ...admit to his being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being" is a gerund; the underlined portion is a noun phrase, and acts as the participial object of "to". 2. ...admit to him being...

MrPedantic wrote:Hello Anon It's possible to make a case for either form. 1. ...admit to his being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being" is a gerund; the underlined portion is a noun phrase, and acts as the participial object of "to". 2. ...admit to him being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being"...

Hello Anon It's possible to make a case for either form. 1. ...admit to his being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being" is a gerund; the underlined portion is a noun phrase, and acts as the participial object of "to". 2. ...admit to him being a St Valentine baby. Here, "being" is a present...

Mister Micawber wrote: After imported doesn't work. The various subordinators are restricted to the types of clauses they can introduce. After cannot introduce -ed nonfinite clauses, whereas when and once can. There are all kinds of caveats. For instance, in -ing nonfinite clauses, after...