Any verb adding ing is a gerund, and gerunds are verbal nouns. Verbal nouns are nouns that stem from verbs, and I've only seen gerunds given as examples of verbal nouns here. Verbs like to accomplish and to move are the stems of the verbal

One often hears that Turkish is the most difficult or a very difficult language for a non-native to learn. I have also read that Turkish is the language that native speakers master quickest. I do not see how both can be true. (In fact I do not

Hello Grammar Teacher/Teachers, 1. Could you teach me how and when to use suffixes and prefixes that are available from the dictionaries,for example, to form a noun,a verb and an adjective ? Thank you. With best wishes.

ARCHI wrote: I am having difficulty using nouns with suffixs - ment, -ism, -ity, -ance/ence,-cy, -ation, -ication, -tion, and-sion As you know, these suffixes simply make another part of speech a noun. I'm not sure what you don't

Clive wrote: Hi, I haven't heard the expression 'a verbal noun'. How would you define it? Yes, gerunds can have an article. Clive When I was studying Turkish, we used the term 'verbal noun' to identify a verb form made into a noun

Miles -- I don't mean to be too discouraging, but "performaly" is not a word. I'm not even sure what an adjective form of a verb would be, unless you mean somehing like "a performing bear," in which case you would use the gerund. Not all parts of

Hi! I'd like to ask anybody. How can I easely learn prefixes an suffixes. Is there a dictionary what can easely help me? For instance, I can have the verb perform. Noun is performance, person is performer, adjective is performaly, and negative

I don't think I understand the question. Nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are called parts of speech. Is that the terminology you're looking for? The study of how words are put together using meaningful prefixes and suffixes like -ness, -able,

Wow, I had the same question, but with help from this thread, I got enough ideas to formulate some solutions of my own. Thank you! As for starter ideas, I thought of the terms: humanity/humanitarian, just, compassion, chivalrous, civil/civic,

Mr Pedantic, Truly you deserve the epithet by which you identify yourself. I sensed you were going to put me on the spot this way. Worse still, I know there is every chance that the examples I could furnish (from Gonda or not) won’t