Timeline for Gerund phrase....is it really?
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| Aug 27, 2016 at 20:17 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:53 | vote | accept | sooeithdk | ||
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:32 | answer | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:27 | comment | added | sooeithdk | Thanks! Also, is my analysis about the object of preposition correct? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:22 | comment | added | John Lawler | Some could be either. The infallible tests are: if it can take an object, it's a gerund, but if it can take an article, it's a deverbal noun. But they don't work for intransitive gerunds, for instance. In a lot of cases you can't tell, and it doesn't really matter. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:19 | comment | added | sooeithdk | Ah. The whole page was talking about gerunds and how they are used in the sentences. There is a link. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:18 | comment | added | nafg | It's also interesting that the gerund example is not in the gerund section but the object of preposition section. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:16 | comment | added | sooeithdk | Thank you! I edited it. Also, the reason I thought it was deverbal noun is because I just had this weird feeling as I read the sentence... is there any specific reason it is only deverbal noun, not gerunds? Are those all single word gerunds deverbal nouns? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:14 | history | edited | sooeithdk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:12 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Yes, those are deverbal nouns, not gerunds. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 2:08 | history | asked | sooeithdk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |