In Nouns^x, Hyphens^x, Gerunds^x

Hi, I think I have seen more than enough cases where what people call a verbal noun has the indefinite article 'a' in front of it and at the very least, the sheer number (should it be - sheer numbrs??) of it warrants some good explanations from experts in this forum. I think I can laid...

I think a preposition can only be followed by noun, pronoun, gerund, and noun phrase. Please have a look on this POST . Link: www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenMeaningThese-SentencesUsedPlayCricket/ *** /Post.htm Use v-b-x-x-v without hyphens in place of *** in the above...

The police arrested him for speeding . "The police" = S "arrested" = V "him" = O "(F)or speeding" is a reason- and an adverbial clause ? In my book, a clause contains a verb or verbs. "(S)peeding " is a gerund, thus is a noun. How is it? Question #2: 1. "(F)or...

I'll answer the easy one first: no hyphen after 'single' because there is no hyphen after 'double'. Now, the hard one. I don't quite understand the nature of these checklist 'items'. The list looks like this?-- # Fulfill( s ) the claims according to Swedish Standard SS 3079, class 2 #...

1.I have a fishing rod. 2.I read an interesting book. Is {in (1)} fishing a gerund or a participle in 1? OR "In 1, is fishing a ..." JTT: The placement of 'in 1' is unnatural, Hanuman. In (2), interesting is a participle. Am I right? Then why ISN'T "fishing" in (1) a...