By Gerunds, Past tenses

Does the applicant have experience utilizing computerized tomography? What is the underlined part called in English grammar? Why must the -ing form be used? Is it an adverbial, a gerund form, or something different? and I want to have my house painted. What is painted called? It is not the...

Hoa Thai wrote: Belly wrote: Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity, but it may violate with the parallelsim, may not it? Not really! This sentence contains the vilolation: "He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee." One clause uses the simple past tense and the...

Belly wrote:Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity, but it may violate with the parallelsim, may not it? Not really! This sentence contains the vilolation: "He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee." One clause uses the simple past tense and the other uses the past...

1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun. What precedes a...

Solomon_13000 wrote:Are the sentence below correct in terms of grammar (verbs, nouns and so on that are italic)? Adjective They say that Simon is the strongest man in the fitness club. He is the strongest man on earth That is the strongest building in the city Neither Joan nor Jamie...

Lin1978 wrote:Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or change...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

MrPedantic wrote: On reflection, there is a possible ambiguity, which the past tense brings out a little better than the present: 1. I went fishing along the Thames. — gerund; = I went on a fishing trip along the Thames. 2. I went fishing along the Thames. — participle; = I went along the...

Rather than fixing the broken part, ... See http://www.bartelby.com/64/C002/006.html According to the bartleby site, when a rather than clause precedes a main clause in the past tense, the gerund is the correct choice. Personally, I would accept Rather than fix the broken part, ... as...

Toronto2001 wrote:There is no real difference to 'ring' or 'ringing'. Ringing is more in the past tense but both are suitable. "ringing" is a "ing" form (participle/gerund), unrelated to time/tense. A copula/auxilliary verb defines the tense (was ringing), or in this case the main verb heard.