In Analogies^x, Learn English^x

My cyber red packet for the new year! If you're investigating semantic analogy, I suggest you look at my other thread on "approach to". I've been trying to tell my friend it's okay to put a gerund (or is it verbal, as Mr. P called it?) after "approach to". My friend insisted that "X is the...

Haa..haaa...shows that how difficult for me to learn English. When I speak in mother tongue, I never think which one is 'noun' or which one is 'adjective', the thing is, I don't really have that kind of environment to get me accustomed to using English, I try to read more, but to learn through...