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Thank you, again. Are these types of verbal nouns (as you called it) or instances of verbal nouns? What validates their placement of an indefinite article? I did a Google Book search for the what you seem to be callling "verbal nouns" -- watching, mixing, playing, shouting and...

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...

Hi, It has been known to me that a gerund can function as a noun and should or likely to be treated more as an uncountable noun than a countable noun. Mixing of sugar and flour makes this dough ... If you want to be specific, I think you could write: The mixing of sugar and flour...

Hi, Maybe I really shouldn't delve too deeply into the topic of changing an uncountable noun into a countable noun but since I see them every so often in print, I want to ask you. A person or two (think one person is Yankee) seem to have said that I have to find the words or things that...

Actually, I think I have already said what I had to say in my response to your post about the cats and alligators. But I'll go over some of your concerns : I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS...