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Re: gerund or verbal noun

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...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 313 days ago Articles Grammar Verbs Weddings Prepositions Constructions Clauses Nouns Noun phrases Gerunds Literature Expressions English grammar Abstract nouns

Tumbling wrote: Will someone please check me. Red the small letters that should be capitalized in the following sentences.1. The Fairfax hotel operates on the american plan.2. Sarah Whiting, an astronomer at wellesley, helped plan the Whitin observatory.3. This spring my aunt Mary saw several...

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Kindly Help me in modifying with the errors in the following sentences Instructions: Please complete the exercises given below. Then rename the file by adding “_your full name”. e.g., Editing Test_TeenaGunt Use the “Track changes” option. This will indicate any insertion...

ESL Essay, Writing World by Pradi 1 yr 20 days ago Paragraphs Constructions Expressions Marriage Literature Prepositions Colloquial expressions
Re: Disproven

Disproven is OK, and so is assumptions / the assumptions-- but I would use its assumptions. And I think that by is the wrong preposition, since literature itself proves/disproves nothing. Use in (the) feminist literature.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mister Micawber 1 yr 337 days ago Prepositions Literature
Re: phrasal verbs

Hi, Pieanne, If you research the literature on this topic you will find that different authors prefer different terminology. I've seen it called "adverb", "preposition", and "particle". "preposition" is popular among the transformational grammarians. They theorize that prepositions do...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 2 yr 265 days ago Articles Verbs Prepositions Adverbs Literature
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For the rest, Kela, I'm going to give you hints (in blue), so that you can try to improve things yourself. (A repeated problem is your use of indefinite pronouns--for instance, writing 'he' when the reader doesn't know which person 'he' refers to. Rommel described himself as a boy who doesn’t...

ESL Essay, Writing World by davkett 2 yr 310 days ago Commas Tenses Universities Punctuation Nouns Verbs Plurals Literature Articles Past tenses Pronouns Prepositions Adverbs
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Hello! I'm quite positive that my preposition is wrong. Can you help me out, please? Postgraduate student of Literature and socio-humanistic context

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Antonia 2 yr 322 days ago Prepositions Literature
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Hello! Can you please tell me if my preposition is OK in the pink part of the sentence. Thank you! Three classes who participated in the study had an opportunity to experience the so called ''Combined reading''or different ways of interpreting literature on the third and forth year of their...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Antonia 2 yr 326 days ago Prepositions Literature
Re: Prescriptive Grammarians - Who Are They?

Hello Roro By the way how do you think about MrPedantic's point ? Do you mean the semantic difference between "with whom ..." and "whom ... with"? Or should I talk about why the Lowth's writing is ironic? I think I have no idea about the first question, though I'm getting inclined to agree to...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by paco2004 3 yr 33 days ago Constructions Prepositions Difference between Whom Literature
Re: Someones

Hello MtL This is the kind of phrase you find in advertising blurb: 1. *NEW!* English Forums Prepositions! Ten-Year Guarantee! For that Special Someone! i.e. if someone is 'special' to you (e.g. a girlfriend, a husband), buy them a few English Forums prepositions. You could extend this...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by MrPedantic 3 yr 135 days ago Verbs Prepositions Adverbs Literature

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