By Indefinite articles, Verbs

I am not sure if the following answers your question but I'll say it anyway. Some grammarians don't distinguish between verbal nouns (= complete nouns formed from verbs with the ing ending) and gerunds (= words that are neither verbs nor nouns but resemble both to some extent). Some...

First, let me call your attention to CB's correction. "Very" is an adverb, not an adjective, and it probably always was. "Most" is an adjective when it modifies a noun (Most people can swim.), but in the two quite different usages we've been talking about here,...

Thank you, Avangi. In my previous post, I should have used third-person verb tenses, 'sounds' and 'gives' -- proper subject-verb agreement wasn't made due to my carelessness. Going back to your request for examples of cases where I would feel something in quotes could not be...

You should delete the indefinite article in the second and third sentences. - "pharmacologically active" = adverb + adjective (i.e. there is no noun)- "inert" = adjective (i.e. there is no noun)

When we talk with biblical precision about the resurrection, we discover an excellent foundation for lively and creative Christian work in the present world--not, as some suppose, for an escapist or quietist piety. Here, the word 'piety' seems to be uncountable, yet seems that the...

Hi, I gotthe following sentences from the ChristianToday magazne, a magazine of evangelical conviction, by N.T. Wright on March 25, 2008, and hope you would answer some questions on them. When we talk with biblical precision about the resurrection, we discover an excellent foundation for lively...

I think there are a couple way to look at this. One is the use of the word 'thereof' and what it means. It is defined as such: thereof -adverb: of or concerning this, that or itWhen the word 'thereof' is used it gets its meaning entirely from the word to which it refers. So...

Marius Hancu wrote:Seven years -> have but you'll see both. However: It's going to be the best Christmas ever because this year I have done everything myself and the horrible atmosphere of the last seven years has lifted. I agree with Marius. In English the grammatical number...

"I talked to him for only a short time".What is the part of speech of only in above sentence. I wonder that "a" is an indefinite article, so if "only" is an adverb, what does it modify for? I'm really confused!Thank you for your answers!

... the old grammarians would have called 1.1 and 2.1 verbal nouns. No. See below. See Sect. 273 of B&S. All examples with the ---ing of --- are called gerunds there. 1.1 «The singing was excellent» I'm not sure what B&S would call this, but neither verbal noun nor gerund is...