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Grammar Geek wrote:Singing is a gerund, a noun, so it takes the possessive my. This is rather peculiar, I think. I have encountered the same thing on these forums many times. Native speakers say: "A gerund is a noun." Do they teach it that way in American schools and universities? Grammatical...

Paco -- I'm sorry English is so frustrating! A few comments come to mind: First, I can see how it seems to you that the current chaotic state of English is a result of generations of laziness regarding grammatical rules, but I would prefer to think of it this way: the current flexibility of...

Hello Julie I'm an English learner from Japan. One problem of our kids here is that they are not taught much about the grammar of Japanese, though they are forced to learn English grammar rather intensively. As the consequence, they tend to parse Japanese sentences by using the concepts of...