I have doubts about which verb tense should I I should use in these situations: ... Why should I use the -ing form in the first case and the infinitive in the second case? By doing so, you are merely following the usual conventions of English. It

Jaleel.nt, in the first instance, we deal with a phenomenon that is conventionally known as a passive gerund ; the whole clause with being... can be substituted with a noun phrase, eg, ...this award . Therefore, we refer to being... as a nominal

When we say 'his being' we are using 'his' as a possessive pronoun. This is tantamount to saying Bob's doing... (An apostrophe here indicates possessive). And whenever one uses such a construction, although one should try to

Hi, The reason you have not yet had a reply maybe that your post is very long. I'm glad that you have now started sentences with a capirtal. But oyu still have other problems with capitals and punctuation in some of these examples.

Hello, I would need someone to go over my correction, the part in bold, i'm correcting this for a student, i've just gotten my tofel exam and working to be a teacher, if someone could look at this, i wouldn't want to give it back with

"I was sitting at the table eating a honeycomb. Is eating a honeycomb a gerund (noun) or a participle (adjective)? Should it be set off with a comma after table ? If so, why? It is certainly not a noun. It is a participle. A comma is not

"I was sitting at the table eating a honeycomb. Is eating a honeycomb a gerund (noun) or a participle (adjective)? Should it be set off with a comma after table ? If so, why?

Summer pinned the fish to the ground, using both hands , so it couldn’t slither away. I believe this sentence has too many commas. So is a conjunction, thus crying out for a comma to come before it. Using both hands , however, is a mystery to me.

In a grammar book, it states this, but I am somewhat confused. Isn't noun a person, place, or thing? (P.S do I have to add a comma before 'or' in the sentence above?) Can someone explain how gerunds and infinitives can be used as

Hi, I have doubts about the use of comma to suppress part of the phrase. Is the following sentence correct? "A scar is noted, improving since the last visit" I don't know what you mean by 'suppress'.