http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aGerunds+tag%3aPrepositions+tag%3aAdverbsSearch results for 'tag:Gerunds tag:Prepositions tag:Adverbs' matching tags 'Gerunds', 'Prepositions', and 'Adverbs'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuickQuestionVerbs/hhbcp/post.htm#619376Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:37:35 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:619376califjimLiving there is frustrating living there subject gerund noun plus adverbis linking verbfrustrating subject complement predicate adjective present participlefrustrating is adjectival because you can add very an adverb of degree that can be used to modify adjectives Living there is very frustrating If frustrating were part of a verb phrase you d need an object Living there is frustrating all of us me Susan Here s another This problem has been frustrating the manager for days Here the word frustrating expresses actively doing something to the object not just describing how it is to live there not just describing what the problem is like in the second example You can t have for example Living there is very frustrating all of us me Susan It has been very frustrating the manager very goes with adjectives the nonsense of is very frustrating me shows that frustrating is not an adjective in frustrating me Changing the tense of the linking verb or adding a modal verb does not affect the analysis Living there was frustrating Living there will be frustrating Living there has been frustrating Living there had been frustrating Living there could have been frustrating Neither does changing a simple adverb to a prepositional phrase or more Living in that room was frustrating Living in the mountains may have been frustrating Living in the shadow of Victoria had been frustrating ____I wanted to tell him to leave I subject pronounwanted main verbto tell him to leave object of the verb wanted first infinitival clause The implicit subject from the main clause is I me I wanted me to tell him to leave tell verb of the first infinitival clause him indirect object of tell him to leave object of the verb tell infinitival clause him subject of the second infinitival clause him has a double function to leave verb of the second infinitival clauseI wanted I tell him he leave subj verb subj i o subj verb I wanted me to tell him him to leave Both segments in brackets are infinitival clauses with implicit subjects and are direct objects of the verb that precedes them Strike outs show the implicit subjects of the clauses Subjects of infinitival clauses are always in the objective case CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/PleaseCorrectThisSentence/hzqnz/post.htmThu, 18 Dec 2008 12:22:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:614062eddie88At times it has been frustrating living in the shadow of Victoria to the point that you want them to have a fight Analysis of athe above sentence Noun phrase At times it At times form Prepositional phrase Function adverbial phrase pre modifierit form noun phrase Function subjectVerb phrase has been frustrating living in the shadow of Victoria to the point that you want them to have a fight has been form verb phrase Function helping verbs auxiliary verbs past tensefrustrating form participle phrase Function subject complement adjective living in the shadow of Victoria form gerund phrase Function in apposition to subject complement frustrating to the point that you want them to have a fight form noun clause that clause Function apposition to frustrating frustrating to the point form prepositional phrase function adverb How much of this is correct Assuming I am right that frustrating is the complement I had trouble establishing if it were a gerund or participle I think it is an adjective complement predicate adjective so i went with participle I am not sure if the rest of the sentence was a compound appositive or not If you could help fix my mistakes etc it would be great Thanks so much http://www.englishforums.com/English/SentenceHelpAdverbClause/hzgjv/post.htm#611103Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:34:13 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:611103alpheccastarsOf all fourteen years of being Tim s friend I have not once seen that expression on his face Of all fourteen years gt Prepositional phrase adverbial of being Tim s friend gt Prepositional phrase adjective modifying years Being is the object gerund friend is the object of the verbal gerund being I have not once seen that expression on his face Main clauseI subject have seen main verb not adverbonce adverb that expression demonstrative pronoun adjective direct object on his face gt Prepositional phrase adverbialhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/SubordinateMainClause/hdchz/post.htm#600088Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:27:31 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:600088califjim quote user Eddie88 The subject in this case has a subject and a verb why is it not a clause quote Nobody said it was not a clause There are several bits of terminology that are confusing One set of terms applies to the individual words house is a noun happy is an adjective quietly is an adverb And so on Another set of terms applies to groups of words that do not form complete thoughts or complete sentences but which go together These are phrases noun phrases adjective phrases verb phrases and so on in the corner is a prepositional phrase very unhappily is an adverb phrase the bird singing in that tree is a noun phrase what I did last summer is a noun phrase slept for ten hours is a verb phrase Phrases can have other phrases or clauses within them The noun phrase the bird singing in that tree contains the prepositional phrase in that tree for example and the verb phrase slept for ten hours contains the prepositional phrase for ten hours Another set of terms applies to the functions of phrases within clauses The main terms that show function are words that show the function of noun phrases in a sentence A noun phrase is almost always going to be one of these a subject a direct object an indirect object an object of a preposition or a subject complement Another term for a verb phrase is predicate And just to make it confusing sometimes the term verb phrase is applied only to groups consisting of consecutive verbs not the objects that follow them This means that the same group of words in a sentence can be labeled in more than one way For example anything that is a subject is also a noun phrase Anything that is an object of a preposition is also a noun phrase And so on Clauses almost always contain a verb But on rare occasions the verb that is intended is so obvious that it is not stated the word group is then often called a clause anyway The verb may show tense be tensed be finite or the verb may not show tense be non tensed be non finite Depending on this feature the clause is called a finite clause or a non finite clause Non finite forms of the verb are gerunds participles and infinitives Independent clauses are those that can stand alone as complete sentences These are either complete sentences or the clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions like and or but All other clauses are dependent clauses A non finite clause can only be a dependent clause But finite clauses can be dependent clauses as well Clauses can occur within phrases These are all dependent clauses Independent clauses are not embedded within phrases the man whom I saw walking down the street yesterday is a noun phrase but it contains a dependent clause used as an adjective to modify the noun man into the house located across the street is a prepositional phrase but it contains the noun phrase the house located across the street The noun phrase contains the clause which is located across the street also called a participial phrase And across the street is also a prepositional phrase inside the larger prepositional phrase You have to think in terms of hierarchies and structures that are embedded inside of other structures CJ http://www.englishforums.com/English/AnalyseAndDifferences/hbwjq/post.htmSun, 23 Nov 2008 17:27:39 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:592041ericsteef f 1 She stopped looking for a way out 2 She stopped to look for a way out my analying to these sentences is like this sentence f1 She pronoun functioning as subject stopped is main verb looking i don t know what is it it could be gerund but can we call it second main verb or adjective for a way out is prepositional phrase consist of the preposition for and the noun phrase a way out is an adverb the first sentence means that she gave up finding an exit the second sentence means that she stopped walking to find where is the exit is my analysing correct and what is the syntatic analyse of the second sentence http://www.englishforums.com/English/GerundVerbalNounArticle/2/gmrqr/Post.htm#560354Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:30:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:560354crokeyhi cb its me again how do you feel about possessives before a gerund John s singing bothered me You are constantly told that the possessive should be used before a gerund unless you are saying something weird and you wish to emphasise the subject of the gerund However John s loud singing bothered me well loud is an adjectival attribute modifying singing and you will never get an adverb to fit in there the correct speaking of the english language is important correctly speaking english is important So is it fair to say that if you can modify the ing form with an adjecitval attribute then it is a verbal noun and not a gerund john s singing the national anthem bothered me john s loud singing OF the national anthem bothered me I could hardly have changed the nature of the word singing from a gerund in the first instance to a verbal noun in the second merely by adding an adjective Furthermore if in the first case singing is indeed a verbal noun should it written as john s singing of the national anthem otherwise without the preposition of singing would be taking the object the national anthem have a nice day http://www.englishforums.com/English/GerundsParticiplesInfinitives/grqvh/post.htmSat, 26 Apr 2008 20:38:47 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:505825tanookaI have to identify the verbal phrases and verbals and for participles determine whether they are present past or irregular For gerunds whether they are subjects direct objects predicate nominatives or objects of prepositions And finally for infinitives determine whether they are nouns adjectives or adverbs There are 25 sentences and I did my best but please help me make any corrections necessary I will bracket the verbal phrases and put the verbals in parenthesis and in forgot what they are called I will label them as I said above DO direct objects PN predicate nominative ect 1 I m leaning G DO toward seeing G OP the fish at Bonneville Dam Biff declared 2 I don t like chopping kindling G DO moped Yahoo 3 The hooked P PAST salmon fought hard 4 To peer I N through the fast moving P PRESENT water is difficult 5 I wish to go I N sledding P PRESENT on the snow Twisp grinned 6 High water running P PRESENT through the valley flooded the disappointed P PAST farmer s land 7 To be I N strong I work out at lumberjack skills Rocko boasted 8 The depressed P PAST button ignited the outdoor lighting 9 Squirrels munched the discarded P PAST potato chips 10 Leenda was happy to help I ADJ with cleaning G OP up the remaining P PRESENT garden fresh salad 11 Biff went to work I adv at the Dairy Freeze then studied math and its challenging P present algebra problems 12 Leenda was hopeful to hear I adv that snow was forecast 13 Cleaning the road the snow plow rescued many stranded P PAST motorists 14 I m going fishing G DO said Rocko 15 The water was too high so the crafty salmon wouldn t strike the fishing P PRESENT hook 16 The storm beaten P IRREGULAR cabin held strongly against the pounding P PRESENT rain 17 Taking the turn too sharply in the slickened P PAST snow Suzy s car slid into a hidden P IRREGULAR ditch 18 A shivering P PRSENT Rocko took an hour to dig I ADJ Suzy out 19 For cooking pies I like to make I N thick crusts Suzy advised 20 The growing P PRESENT trees were felled by chainsawing G OP 21 Setting P PRESENT off from the bridge the sailboarder hit the river s big waves 22 The way to navigate I ADJ the national forest is to do I N a good examination of USGS maps beforehand 23 Rocko sweating P PRESENT and exhausted P PAST took a brake from chopping G OP 24 To sew I N requires a sure hand giggled Twisp 25 To live I N honorably is to do I N what s right affirmed angelic Leenda This took me so long to write and thank you so much in advance for helping http://www.englishforums.com/English/MistakesMadeChineseLearners/zqpbx/post.htmMon, 14 Apr 2008 14:30:26 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:500579anonymous Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English completely made up In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2 I have got so far Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as rude inconsiderate more serious transfer may affect comprehensiveness No inflections in L1 tenses difficult to learn in L2 as L1 has no true tenses and concept of time is expressed by adverbs implicit or contextual assumptions Difficulty distinguishing r amp Does anyone know why this is as I can t find a reason Prepositions such as on in amp at have one chinese translation in many contexts zai may be confused resulting in phrases such as on Taiwan instead of in Taiwan Use of awkward gerunds e g no noising excessive use of verbs ending in ing e g do not climbing confusion of ed amp ing verbs e g i am bored vs i am boring all of these errors occur because verbs are not conjugated in chinese for tense or pronoun No equivalent word for the so may be used excessively when not needed e g The China or missed out when needed May also be confused with a an Confusion over countable and uncountable nouns use of how much vs how many leads to phrases such as I want a soup amp a lot of shoe This is due to there not being plurals in chinese no inflections Switching between he amp she Does anyone know why this is If anyone can think of anymore it would be greatly appreciated or if anyone knows the answers to my questions about gender switching and distinguishing r amp this would also help a lot Thank you in advance Shannon http://www.englishforums.com/English/Verbs/zxkld/post.htmSun, 16 Mar 2008 09:38:41 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:489467ganesh77The list isn t meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged Any additions corrections or further examples would be welcomed 1 main verbs lexical verbs all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals 2 action verbs event verbs dynamic verbs a verb which can be used in continuous tenses i e eat run talk 3 state of being verbs existence verbs state verbs stative verbs static verbs a verb which describes a state and is not usually used in a continuous tense i e be own know 4 regular verbs a verb that has four forms and follows the normal rules 5 irregular verbs strong verbs a verb not following the normal rules for inflection 6 auxiliary and modal verbs which make up verbal phrases 23 in total 7 linking verbs copulative verbs copulas a verb which links the subject and complement of a clause i e It is warm today 8 transitive verbs a verb used to talk about an action or event that involves more than one person or thing and so is followed by an object i e She s wasting her money 9 intransitive verbs a verb used to talk about an action or event that only involved the subject and so has no object i e She arrived 10 multiword verbsa type 1 intransitive phrasal verbs adverb particleb type 2 transitive inseparable prepositional verbs preposition particles c type 3 transitive separable phrasal verbs adverb particle d type 4 transitive with two inseparable particles phrasal prepositional verbs first particle is an adverb second particle is a preposition 11 compound verbs 12 delexical verbs a verb which has very little meaning in itself but is used with an object to describe an action i e She gave a small cry 13 ditransitive verbs a verb which can have both a direct and indirect object i e She gave me a kiss 14 ergative verbs a verb which can be used transitively to focus on the performer of the action or intransitively to focus on the thing affected by the action i e He boiled the water The water boiled 15 reporting verbs performance verbs performative verbs a verb used with a quote or a reported clause to describe what people say or think i e suggest say wonder 16 reciprocal verbs a verb which describes an action involving two people doing the same thing to each other i e They met in the street 17 reflexive verbs a verb which is typically used with a reflexive pronoun i e Don t cut yourself with that knife 18 defective verbs a verb without all the inflected forms of a regular verb i e modals 19 finite and non finite a infinitives b gerunds verbal nouns c participles 20 catenative verbs a verb that takes other verb forms as objects found at the head of a series of linked constructions i e We agreed to try to decide to stop eating snacks 21 causative verbs a verb that designates the action necessary to cause another action to happen i e The devil made me do it http://www.englishforums.com/English/AdjParticiple/zxzkr/post.htm#488002Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:13:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:488002yankee Yes spam relaying functions as an adjective No I d say barefooted is an adverb in your phrase There is no participle of any kind in the phrase two month holiday Yes And yes racing is a gerund No including is a preposition Yes speaking functions as an adjective