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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 ...

It seems to me that the ellipsis in these constructions is no worse than that in other "acceptable" constructions. Webster's Dictionary of English Usage likewise seems to find no good reason for its censure. And why do they perhaps partly because of novelty; but both he and others have...

So, here I am, Hela. This is the first post by you I've found about sentence analysis. 1. I think I've posted this before -not sure when, though- so forgive me if i'm repeating myself. I read once, and I wish I could remember the book or the author, that there si something called "adverbial...

And hello yet again, Hela! In the sentences in your first post there is only one adjective phrase: "very little", in sentence # 3. An adjective phrase is a construction that has an adjective as its "head" (the most important word. In "very little", "little" is the head -it's an adjective-...

Hello guys I'm a non-native anonymous poster. But I'd like to throw my two cents. Children begin to learn the norm before their linguistic skills are far enough developed to understand a verbal description of what they are learning . This kind of learning has sometimes been called...

In "She wasn't impressed", "She" seems to be the subject. Can you explain "null subject"? Are you talking about theta-roles? No, i'm not talking about theta-roles. But it would be useful to bring it in at this juncture. The null-subject is an syntactically empty subject. For example in...

Hi Mask, "I am taller than him." You might find the following page interesting "than" , as it discusses your point. PREPOSITION: Usage Problem In comparison or contrast with: could run faster than him; outclassed everyone other than her. USAGE NOTE: Since the 18th century...

Hello again, kynguyen You said: "In fact I think most of the verbs can be used with or without "to", right? For ex: I need to have a vacation. Or I need a vacation." You used the verb "need" as an exampe of the verbs that can be used with or without the particle "to". But the...

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...