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Post by kitchencabinet on Aug 12, 2006 22:17:04 GMT -5
John's not sooo fascist.... most adjective's don't really end in -ing. So it's really more of a gerund.
ZZZZZing.
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Post by kitchencabinet on Aug 12, 2006 22:17:29 GMT -5
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Post by dr. strangelove on Aug 13, 2006 13:34:30 GMT -5
John's not sooo fascist.... most adjective's don't really end in -ing. So it's really more of a gerund. ZZZZZing. no, it's not a gerund... there are two parts of speech that look exactly alike (verb +ing) but have very different uses grammatically. a gerund is the noun form of a verb. if it's a verb+ing used as an adjective, it's a present participle, which is also used with the progressive tense... you can also use the past participle of a verb as an adjective for example: she is breaking all of the china (breaking = present participle used as part of the present progressive verb) do you hear the breaking glass? (breaking = present participle used as an adjective to modify the state of the glass; currently happening) breaking glass in parking lots at night is fun (breaking = gerund of the verb "break"; subject of the sentence) she drank out of a broken glass (broken = past participle used as an adjective to modify the state of the glass; happened in the past) however, "cunt" isn't a verb, which makes the construction of "cunting" even more grammatically interesting, as there's no noun+ing grammatical form... and i'll stop now |
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Post by kitchencabinet on Aug 13, 2006 15:19:49 GMT -5
ohhh I feel so downtrodden I thought I had discovered a gerund......I stand corrected.
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Post by dr. strangelove on Aug 13, 2006 17:35:36 GMT -5
it's ok... it's a common mistake
i have some coworkers who sometimes have difficulty differentiating between a gerund and a present participle, and we teach ESL
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