By Gerunds, Vocabulary

Miche wrote:Hi, JT. I can see you don't like rules much and I agree with you. Rules are too restrictive, hamper one's "feeling" the language and deprive him/her of the pleasure of speaking the language. That is a major problem with English learners in my country - they can recite mile-long lists...

Whl626 wrote: Specter wrote: "Her job, analyzing data brought in by satellites, is exciting." The gerund phrase 'analyzing data brought in by satellites' is an appositive modifying 'her job.' Does it mean then, that a gerund may also function as an adjective or is there another way to explain...

I was flying Lloyd Aereo Boliviano from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to Miami, USA. An announcement had been made about landing cards: US citizens needed only one card, all other nationalities needed two.A steward walked down the aisle giving cards to the passengers. He asked me: "Are you American?" I...

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)....

Hello Paco, Very interesting thought indeed! My English learning and usage have not gone this far back. So I can only speak in terms of what is learned from recent years. Because of my ELS background and the “all-most-zero” knowledge of English, I had to focus on building my vocabulary and...

The schwa sound, frequently represented by "a" in writing, is ubiquitous in English. It substitutes for a great many words. One such case is "Come on-a my house", where "-a" substitutes for "to", hence, "Come on to my house". The other usage in the text posted is not a substitute at all. ...

Hi Camilus, You've given me a lot of homework. it weighs on my back, but it never is the last straw. Fortunately, my back is strong enough. I Appositives vs. Parenthetical Element a) Neil Armstrong, the first man who walked on the moon, is a native of Ohio. Here, “the first man who walked...