Hi, 1. I walk and I do walking. What is the difference between these two? The latter is not very idiomatic. It sounds a bit like you are taling about your hobbies. 2. Drink milk before you go to sleep. and Drinking milk before sleeping

Hi everyone!! In this sentence " The car needs washing/repairing etc, is the -ing form classed as a gerund or as a participle. Noun =gerund, and verb, adjective =participle I know but????Or is it a gerundive which refers to something

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

much absolutely cannot be used there. loud and great are not really idiomatic there, though with the addition of of , the use of loud is slightly less objectionable. The positioning of adjectives in front of gerund clauses is not often successful

Hi. Is it correct to put adjectives like "loud" or "great" or what looks to be a determiner (not sure, though) like "much" in front of a gerund clause? eg, His much/loud/great playing the violin in the early

Could you explain when exactly we can reduce relative clause if there is no be verb? I know I can say: English has an alphabet that consists or consisting of 26 letters. You are mixing a gerund phrase in with a subordinate noun clause.

Hi, what is the object of the gerund "cooking" in the following sentence? I found my sister reading. I think you mean 'reading', not 'cooking'. It's not a gerund. It's a present participle

Now if I look up "are," the dictionary tells me that it is the present plural of "be." But what I would expect is that it would tell me that it is the present plural of "am" or "is" because those are the

Being an adjective, how can 'difficult' be the subject? It can't. She says that 'estimating' is not a gerund but is part of the verb 'is estimating,' and she says that 'most difficult' is the subject instead.

I was discussing the following sentence with my English teacher: Perhaps most difficult of all is estimating distance and speed when you are passing a car going in the same direction. She says that 'estimating' is not a gerund but is