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Re: One of many problems faced by English learners is their own misconceptions.

Congratulations on your hard work. - A. Edit. "Why is the article "the" essential here?"

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Avangi 15 days ago Articles, American English, Verbs, Prepositions, Constructions, Nouns, Pronouns, Numbers, Gerunds, Predicates, Dialects, Nominative, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles, Paragraphs
Re: gerund or verbal noun with an article?

Fine, especially because of the adjectival attribute. Adjectives tend to enable the use of an indefinite article in many contexts. Examples: Birds were flying in the sky. Birds were flying in a blue sky. I had lunch. I had an early lunch. I saw George Bush on TV last night. I saw a sad George...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Cool Breeze 96 days ago Articles, Nouns, Gerunds, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles
Re: A sequel to an article before a gerund question

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...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 152 days ago Articles, Nouns, Numbers, Gerunds, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles, Quotation Marks, Hyphens

A sequel to an article before a gerund question

Hi, Can you please tell me why a person use an indefinite article before a gerund/verbal noun? I think here people are making an instance of all the gerund/verbal noun "a playing" and not making types of it. Like I have said in the thread named "indefinite article before a...

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Anonymous 152 days ago Articles, Nouns, Gerunds, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles, Essays, Images

Re: indefinite article before a gerund

I am not sure if the following answers your question but I'll say it anyway. Some grammarians don't distinguish between verbal nouns (= complete nouns formed from verbs with the ing ending) and gerunds (= words that are neither verbs nor nouns but resemble both to some extent). Some...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Cool Breeze 154 days ago Articles, Verbs, Plurals, Nouns, Gerunds, Countable Nouns, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles, Speaking English
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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...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Believer 188 days ago Articles, Dates, Nouns, Gerunds, Uncountable Nouns, Countable Nouns, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles, Quotation Marks, Semantic Meanings
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Hi, I have a Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary and taking many looks of it these days, I came up with this query. Please answer if you could. Why is that some what look like gerunds have an indefinite article, like 'a', before them in the entries in my dictianary;...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Believer 360 days ago Articles, Nouns, Gerunds, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles
Re: gerund or verbal noun

... the old grammarians would have called 1.1 and 2.1 verbal nouns. No. See below. See Sect. 273 of B&S. All examples with the ---ing of --- are called gerunds there. 1.1 «The singing was excellent» I'm not sure what B&S would call this, but neither verbal noun nor gerund is...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 1 yr 80 days ago Articles, Grammar, Verbs, Nouns, Gerunds, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles
Re: gerund or verbal noun

Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know that source was so old. So, assuming the modern terminology, the term gerund comprehends a much wider class of (?)words. And the "gerunds" in the examples below are very different but all gerunds, while the old grammarians would have called 1.1 and...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Ant_222 1 yr 80 days ago Articles, Grammar, Nouns, Gerunds, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles
Re: verbal noun vs. gerund

«Please note that CalifJim seems to have said a gerund can have a or an before it, not a verbal noun. But you and CB seem to be saying only verbal nouns can have an adjective as well as an article. I am confused. Help.» I am sure that if CJ did say that, he should have provided some...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Ant_222 1 yr 80 days ago Articles, Nouns, Gerunds, Indefinite Articles, Definite Articles

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