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

My interpretations: I like - is not a phrase, but a single gerund. is tiring - ditto , he returned home = He return home =adjectival functioning as adverb. Please correct me if I am wrong. But one single word can not satisfy

The first and last are not nouns; they are adverbs. The second, if a noun, is a gerund. The third is just a plain old noun– I don't know what you mean by 'kinds' of nouns here.

if "after" is followed by gerund then is it an adverb or a preposition?

Talking quietly with your friends in the hallways might be a good idea. -- Preferable Before seriously considering whether to go ahead with the idea, think about this. -- OK talking with your friends Is this an infinite clause? -- No. An

Hi. Which do you think is correct? Or which is more preferable as the case might be? 1. Softly talking with your friends in the hallways might be a good idea. 2. Talking softly with your friends in the hallways might be a good idea.

Wrong/Right thinking may do you bad/good.-- 'Thinking' is a gerund-- that is, a noun-- therefore it can easily be modified by an adjective: good schooling, happy driving, bad timing. Wrongly believing he did the work may rob him of his rightful

Hi. How could we get a grasp of the notion (is that a notion? I don't know) of putting an adjective before what looks to be a gerund? Please see below. Wrong/Right believing may do you bad/good. Wrong/Right thinking may do you

Hello, We don't split verb phrases like "must have been sleeping" because the whole phrase is acting together as the verb. (But, in this example, you could choose to see "sleeping" as a gerund acting as the predicate noun

Hello, Specter. In your sentence "Working for him doesn't interest me," "working for him" is the subject and the rest is the predicate. The subject happens to be a gerundive (or gerundial, as some call