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Hello Kooyeen, First,thank you very much for your answer . In the meantime I've got the answer on part 1 of my post .It is a question of a preposition at the end of a question.I understand that if ,for example, I ask : Where are you going to? - "where" is a pronoun since it can be replaced...

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 ...

Good question. It points out some of the awkwardness, not to say fallacies, associated with some of our usual explanations of the grammatical machinery of English! It is true that it is difficult to find a noun phrase which can easily and smoothly replace meeting you in the example...

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...

Hi I understand "anytime" is a word proper to AmE. In OED, there is no entry for "anytime". OED contains 466 quotes using "any time" but only 9 quotes using "anytime". I believe the most formal expression in BrE is "Call me at any time". But "Call me any time" is also possible. In English, time...

~chuckles~ Malory, do you know the expression "flattery will get you nowhere"? I truly thank you, but you really don't have to flatter me; I will answer everyone's questions if/when I know the answers. I'm just a bit grumpy! And of course there are other people, many of whom have been here...