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Can you tell me what you mean by the same rules can be applied to parenthetical content? I suppose I meant material in parentheses, the same as you did when you asked the question: You said, "Gerunds can be treated as countable and non-countable, the same as other nouns." OK, can you...

I'm quoting from Essential English Grammar. The words in bold are gerunds or verbal nouns, i.e. verbs used as nouns. Running is a good way to keep fit. Susan is good at drawing. I don't like watching television. Sometimes it is difficult to know whether an ing word is a gerund or a present...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: What does (simple) future tense mean in this sentence? The grammarian (it is a grammarian, isn't it?) you're quoting would probably tell you that there is no future tense. Many linguists claim English has only two tenses: Past and Non-past (sometimes called present)....