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Well done, I knew you could do it . Two errors crop up throughout your essay; you need to capitalise 'I' and you need a space after commas and full stops (periods). You have quite a few errors with mixed tenses and ungrammatical constructions but I'd hate to do your teacher out of a job. I have...

Hello JT It's your forum, so please free to start a new thread on #2. One thought: I'd've quite liked to go back to your other points after dealing with #2. It's possible that similar questions will arise. So it may be tidier to keep both 'threads' here. But it's up to you. I look forward to...

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds (quoted from OED) The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of -ing is its use as a gerund, i.e. a substantive with certain verbal functions, particularly those of being qualified by an adverb instead of an adjective, and of governing an...

Villa rivers Researchers have estimated a progression rate was 0 5 kilometres per 1000 years Clary 1984