By Gerunds, Analogies

You may feel categorization unnecessary - it's your native language. But you explain it to foreigners.Just a little question. Are you interested in English in the way that a linguist is interested in language generally? Or are you simply trying to become proficient at speaking and writing...

Hi Stomach... Belly1. I would like to go now.- After would like the infinitive is normally used.2. I like to swim/swimming.- After like both the infinitive and the gerund are used. After the analogy of No. 1, many usage experts say the infinitive should be used to refer to a single specific...

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Inchoateknowledge wrote: Pastsimple wrote:Answer to the second question: definitely which. What doesn't make sense here at all. What I must do is write a letter (correct) = Write a letter is what I must do (correct) = I could have come, what I wanted so much. I see analogy between the two...

Milky wrote: You're welcome. Alternatives could be: What would you have said verbals are if you had been allowed to say only one sentence and this sentence was not to contain the words: participle, gerund, infinitive?" (to be of obligation) ..................... What would you have...

Milky wrote:You're welcome. Alternatives could be: What would you have said verbals are if you had been allowed to say only one sentence and this sentence was not to contain the words: participle, gerund, infinitive?" (to be of obligation) ..................... What would you have said...

My cyber red packet for the new year! If you're investigating semantic analogy, I suggest you look at my other thread on "approach to". I've been trying to tell my friend it's okay to put a gerund (or is it verbal, as Mr. P called it?) after "approach to". My friend insisted that "X is the...