Very interesting question! My understanding is that gerunds and progressive participles have identical form (i.e. verb + ing) yet different function. A gerund is typically used as a noun, e.g. " Smoking is bad for your health" or

I suppose this goes for introductionary words, too. Essentially, I usually use a comma to separate disjuncts; however, when the sentence contains a filler word, it comes across as a little clunky, if not outwright wrong. Consider the following:

While I've perused these boards in the past, this is the first time I've actually made a post. Thus, I'm not entirely certain if a lengthy, multi-question post like this is appropriate, but I hope that it's acceptable. I recently

No, it should be in present perfect, but if you change only the tense and leave the ", before" you will have a comma splice, which is an incorrect way to join two independent clauses.

Below are three examples of apposotive phrases: 1) My sister, the youngest person in the tournament , won first prize. 2) Michael Jackson, the king of pop , tragically died this year. 3) After winning the election, Barack Obama, the first black

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I would be greatful for a few tips, many thanks.. Elementary level Describing a person's physical appearance. Parts of the body, colours and clothing (please don’t focus solely on body parts etc but consider physical characteristics

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Hi CaliJim, Thanks for carrying me this far. Though my habit of paraphrasing is bit out of control. My biggest concern is sentences with " a comma + a participial clause ", or relative clauses with " a common + a relative

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