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CB, I hate to disagree, because your comments are always so very helpful and appropriate, and you are such a valuable resource on the forum. Nevertheless, I don't think any poetic license whatever is involved here. I believe the explanation lies elsewhere. The sentence in question sounds...

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...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Anonymous wrote: wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either : coordinate clause, prepositional...

Hello everybody. In Grammar, adverbial clauses have alternate structures, this means changing the structure of the clause into a new one, it can be either: coordinate clause, prepositional phrase with gerund or with abstract noun, participal phrase or an absolute constraction. We have the...

wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either : coordinate clause, prepositional phrase, participal...

Hello Mr. Believer, I was savoring your comment for a few minutes and I have this thought. “It is too much of a nuisance for even me to tolerate”. This sounds totally correct. But "a nuisance" is what I am stuck on and I think the interpretation of the scenario became individual....