In Regards^x, Morphology^x

The house will have needed repainting is grammatically correct but sounds odd. I can't think of a situation in which I could say it. With regard to your question, there is no such thing as a continuous gerund. Repainting is usually just called a gerund but you can also call it a present gerund....

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your question wrong... oops. Um, I think that does not resemble...

'If prescriptivism is unnecessary in L1 acquisition, then dictionaries will only exist for L2 speakers, which isn't the case.' Your deduction appears to me fallacious. Using dictionaries do not necessarily mean the chap is prescribing a rule. Take for example, if I throw out the word 'les...