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Hi! I am learning gerund, and hopefully I could help you out with something that I learned. Rule one: You have to use a gerund after some verbs, such as: admit, appreciate, avoid, consider, delay, deny, endure, enjoy... Rule two: A lot of clauses are required gerund after them, such as be...

HelloPlease look at the three sentences below, which I picked up online. 1. She spent the time in working at home 2. She spent the time working at home. 3. The time working at home is gradually increasing.Sentence #1 was traditionally deemed as a grammatical form, but people...

Paco2004 wrote:Hello RVWThank you for the answer. Your thought sounds someway more reasonable. But still I cannot feel confident. If "teaching English" is appositive to "a position", I think, "She found teaching English at a high school" should be idiomatic, but it is not the case. Furthermore,...

Hi CliveYou don't say "a teching English position" but you say "an English teaching position". This "English teaching" is neither a present participle nor a gerund. I take it as a noun phrase made by the nominalization of a verbal phrase "teaching English" and I take you are joining it with...

I think the phrase teaching English at a high school is in apposition to position. The sentence could have been written:She found a position -- teaching English at a high school.or She found a position -- namely, teaching English at a high school.The gerund teaching is not a modifier. It...