Timeline for "There was some [fine skiing there / shooting in the streets]"
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| May 13, 2014 at 1:27 | answer | added | Mogginson | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 9, 2014 at 17:51 | comment | added | joseph_morris | You wrote an answer in a box that said "Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid answering questions in comments." With equal ease, you could have written it in the box below it that says "Your Answer", and it would make the site easier to use for others. Geez. | |
| May 9, 2014 at 2:32 | comment | added | John Lawler | I am not responsible for the purpose of the 'Unanswered' page. | |
| May 9, 2014 at 1:19 | comment | added | joseph_morris | @JohnLawler, please put answers in the answer box and not as comments. Comment-answers break the purpose of the "Unanswered" page. Thank you. | |
| May 5, 2014 at 18:59 | history | edited | F.E. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added "there-is" tag because someone looking at existentials could find John Lawler's comment worthwhile.
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| May 5, 2014 at 15:26 | comment | added | John Lawler | Both are grammatical. Both use There-Insertion with nouns derived with the -ing nominalization from active intransitive verbs (ski, shoot) as subject, appearing after the verb because There-Insertion. They're not gerunds; they can take determiners and adjectives, and they can't take a direct object: *There was some shooting people in the streets. Gerunds are verbs; these are nouns. | |
| May 5, 2014 at 14:41 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 15 characters in body; edited title
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| May 5, 2014 at 14:10 | history | asked | bart-leby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |