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

" building cars is a very difficult task " What is a very difficult task? The subject of the sentence is "building cars" Let's look at it another way: The assembly process for cars is a difficult task. -> Process is

From Oxford it says: He has committed himself to support his brother's children. (Verb) But no examples provided for adjective usage. To the last question, I learned long ago that it's incorrect to use bare infinitve after

Hi Ticce. There are some verbs which are followed with infg forms. __ Some verbs that are followed by -ing can also be followed by infinitive of purpose. One of them is stop. See these ones: I stopped talking . (I ceased to do it.) (I stopped

How do I use the gerund "learning" as a direct object?

thank you Jim; i had already noticed some of your older posts and i gotta tell you all of the definitions and interpretentions presented by you were crystal clear and esasily comprehensible. Doing a great work. Let me ask you one more think,

If this is a sentence, it should begin with a capital letter. The subject of your sentence is the gerund "displaying," which is singular, and should take a singular verb, "does." "Displaying does give." You must

"I want her to go" "I forced him to cook" In all these sentences, "her to go" and "him to cook" are infinitive phrases acting as direct object. The pronouns are the subject of the infinitive. Gerunds and

A) No. You can say: I saw him going into the room. I saw him doing his homework. "See" can be followed by a gerund phrase (it is the direct object of the verb, just like "bird" is the object in "I saw the bird") B)

In my opinion it's adverbial. The verb is "to blame." What do I blame? I blame myself. The question "what" would be answered by identifying the direct object. How do I blame myself?? Why do I blame myself? (This test