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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 http en wikipedia org wiki...

Dave First of all and even when everyone is surely aware of this I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good I m not a grammarian or a linguist It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I lack...