Hello everyone, I wish it would stop raining – I know ‘wish’ and ‘would’ are the key to the construction - but I don’t know what the tense is… Subject + wish + it (what is it?)+ would (modal auxiliary verb) + verb + gerund Hi, You

Hello everyone, Would anyone mind having a read through my answers below to see if i'm on the right tracks? I'm looking at the meaning/function and form of the sentence/underlined words! With many thanks!! Fiona is very

Terminology varies a little from country to country and ven from grammarian to grammarian. My opinion: Are gerunds verbs? No, but a gerund can take an object and may occur in the passive voice like a verb. I consider a gerund neither a verb nor a

A gerund is noun-like in function. A participle is a modifier. A participle can be a present participle or a past participle. Gerund: taking (used where a noun would be used in a sentence) Present participle: taking (used where a modifier would

Hi, I have difficulty in understanding verb usage(two verbs given and go in same sentence) in below sentence and also please tell me the parts of speech in the sentence. You need articles as shown. Effective and substantial critiques

simpler to separate clauses on the basis of identifying conjunctions sentences are clauses separated by conjunctions each clause then has a subject(noun) one verb and an object(noun) and or indirect object(noun) and or a preposition the noun may

I appreciate your position, CB. I guess it's a chicken-vs-egg thing. There are certain "verb parts" which I think of as primary, something like the "principle parts." In my mind, the participles are among these. My

Living in the shadow of Victoria had been frustrating. 1)Is frustrating a gerund or present participle? It seems to describe the subject (particple), but it also takes the place of a gerund; that is, the complement. 2)Is frustrating a verb now

It had been frustrating living in the shadow of Victoria. If I invert the sentence to omit the dummy 'it', it appears like this: Living in the shadow of Victoria had been frustrating. Three questions arise from this: 1)Is frustrating a

It seems as though you are looking at this from a different angle from me. And, yes, CJ has provided me with great answers in the past. It would be great to know what he thinks on the subject. My key problem appears are when I try to identify the