Does "Carpeting" in the title derive from a verb "carpet" and not from "carpeting" which happens to be a noun itself? One would need to study the history of early uses of these words to be absolutely sure, but

In this essay I am about to touch on the existence of God. There is not yet an entirely proven yes or no answer to this mind blowing question, that is why in this essay I cannot possible answer if God exists or not. Instead I will try my best to

This is a very interesting discussion. Allow me to present views:- Question: I would have written, ''fraud which perpetrated throughout.. What do you say? No. But you could say 'which was perpetrated throughout . . . ' turning the

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.

Anonymous wrote: wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new

Hello everybody. In Grammar, adverbial clauses have alternate structures, this means changing the structure of the clause into a new one, it can be either: coordinate clause, prepositional phrase with gerund or with abstract noun, participal

wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either :

There is a difference between a clause (the term you used previously) and a phrase ('of the Princess of Bigman's land'). anything we should be aware of when we decide to take that road of turning uncountable nouns into sort of countable nouns?

Well, your example ( A beauty of the Princess of Bigman's land is exquisite ) makes no sense to me. Is that your creation, or did you find it somewhere? It contains no restrictive clause. In any case, I see no problem with constructing a sentence

Mr. M. Lately I think I am seeing more of what looks be uncountable nouns followed by what looks to be retrictive clauses and precede by the indefinite article "a." Is that right? How about this? IS THIS RIGHT? A beauty of the Princess of