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hi cb, its me again!how do you feel about possessives before a gerund? "John's singing bothered me". You are constantly told that the possessive should be used before a gerund(unless you are saying something weird and you wish to emphasise the subject of the gerund). However,...

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. Here are some simple questions if you were speaking english as your first language!Anyway,You ought to help a poor english leaner like me...thanks a million Below are the questions: What are the differences between these sentences? I'm rushing my time. I'm...

Grammar Geek wrote:Singing is a gerund, a noun, so it takes the possessive my. This is rather peculiar, I think. I have encountered the same thing on these forums many times. Native speakers say: "A gerund is a noun." Do they teach it that way in American schools and universities? Grammatical...

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hi, english can be a real headache especially when taking prepositions into account. in spoken english we tend to overuse them. for example the person could have said that the girl was on holiday and that the other person works in tokyo but spoken english ignores "written" english rules and this...

Owing to the fact that there are so few inflections in English, the few inflected forms that there are are used in a number of ways. An ing-form, for example, can be1. a present participle: a walking man2. a noun: the beginning as easy3. an adjective: I was willing to learn it4. a preposition:...