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All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun . It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. __ The modern definition is given at ...

Which is better: (it's part of the information on the tea box) 1. Tea facilitating digestion process 2. Tea which facilitates digestion process 3. A tea which facilitates a digestion process SHOULD I USE THE ARTICLE "a" BEFORE DIGESTION PROCESS. I KNOW THAT BEFORE ABSTRACT NOUNS WE DON'T HAVE TO...

deleted by an obligatory deletion transform . Will this work on the clutter in my living room? Don't we all wish!!! LOL Part of the problem, as Paco has aptly observed, is the problem of finding the missing (deleted) subject of a dependent clause, the infinitive clause "to be ......

Hello Hela Congressman Verbal noun phrases can be used without being unmodified with "the" when they are first mentioned. (1) passage of the Child Abduction Prevention Act --> passing the Child Abduction Act (2) rescue of the child --> rescuing the child. (3) apprehension of the criminal...

Hello Infinity. I'm a mere English learner from Japan, but could you allow me to throw my 2 cents on your question? Frankly speaking, I'd say you'd better give up the hope you could get a conclusive answer to the question. I have raised a similar question before in this forum but I could...