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Let's take this one step at a time: We listen to Fagin. --> This is a complete sentence (main clause); "listen to" is the phrasal verb, and Fagin is the object. But could Fagin be doing? talking, screaming, yelling, running, and so on. For example: Fagin's loud talking...

16: is known as (passive structure; active form: We know Boston as the Hub...) 17. storing, erasing and retrieving (These are parallel and should be in the same form.) 18. Professor Andom Iyassou ("Professor" is a title. If Andom Iyassou is one person, "professor" must be...

Hmm... this seems to be another case of varying terminology. I have no objection to calling a participle an adjective, I'm just not used to that. Nor am I used to many other grammatical terms used here, like "a noun phrase". Don't get me wrong! I certainly don't mean...

Hi bbudulinek I think it's just that some people have been lazy for long enough, which has resulted in expressions like those in your sentences becoming so common that they are now "idiomatic" English. Note 1: ... has given them far too little to do or much too long in which to do...

Can you please give us the sentence you're not sure of? The subject is not necessarily a noun. It can be a noun, as well as it can be: a pronoun: Someone wants to speak to you. an infinitive: To swim is pleasant. a gerund: Smoking is not allowed here. a numeral: Three were...

CJ: «Section 11 (3) has the verbal (abstract) nouns that end in -ing, such as saying, foreboding, meaning, drawing, blessing,» Yes, and there are "the V-ing of" examples among them: 1. The best thoughts and sayings of the Greeks 2. ...the well-being of her subjects 3. The rude...

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 ...

Clive wrote: Hi, I haven't heard the expression 'a verbal noun'. How would you define it? Yes, gerunds can have an article. Clive When I was studying Turkish, we used the term 'verbal noun' to identify a verb form made into a noun by adding suffixes to denote person, possession,...

Hi, I haven't heard the expression 'a verbal noun'. How would you define it? Yes, gerunds can have an article. Clive

Hi, Just a comment adding to the experts’ post…. “looking forward to” is an idiomatic expression” What follows is either a noun, or noun phrase. i.e. I am looking forward to …What? What- implies a noun. My vacation in Hawaii, or my first dance lesson. Since gerund is a noun, it’s only...