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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 apply...

Kooyeen wrote:Hi Yoong,yeah, of course that's not a gerund, but does that present participle act as ad adjective or as a part of a present continuous?I saw him entering the building. ---> I saw him. He was entering the building. (present continuous, ongoing action)I saw him sitting on a...

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)....