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quote user MIA6 Here is another example We listen to Fagin __ and share her tormented feelings A talk to Nancy B talking to Nancy I chose A since I thought that would make the sentence parallel but the answer was B So is that everytime we see listen we have put verb ing form after it quote Let s...

quote user CalifJim Your question opens up a good many sticky points in the terminology Do we Can we talk about certain structures by naming them without regard to their function in context Or not Probably not Is love a noun or a verb Only context will tell quote Hmm this seems to be another...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen who will find most of this section superfluous is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it and for them the section is in danger of being useless In...

Infinitive means Infinitive This pattern preserves the parallel between infinitives and is fine I see nothing incorrect here This is presented as a universal truth of some kind Infinitive means Gerund This pattern is also grammatical but the universality is less obvious The gerund seems to...

Hello Skater I am sorry for asking such a rude question I m a bit surprised to hear the opinion for one s doing from a true native speaker like you When I was a school boy JFK was your President at that time I was taught in English class we should use the form of one s doing for example in the...

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 object like a...