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1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun. What precedes a...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

ringed and beated are not correct past tenses of these verbs. Rang and beat are the simple past tense for these verbs. You could say The world rang in the new year. USC beat Michigan in Rose Bowl if you wanted to express these things in past rather than present tense. However, both of these...

1. I think a grammar guide noted that the structures of "noun + present or past participle" and "adjective + present or past participle" need to be hyphenated. Good, but sometimes I have difficulty distinguishing whether a word is a past participle like the one below: ZZZ related...