Timeline for Gerund Phrase as Subject
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 20:45 | history | edited | ScotM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2013 at 18:16 | vote | accept | matt3141 | ||
| Oct 16, 2012 at 5:07 | comment | added | Kris | I understand the sentences differently. Grammar and formal semantics may not agree with me. | |
| Oct 16, 2012 at 2:12 | answer | added | bib | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:47 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Bill Franke: I can assume the elision "[You] understanding and accepting..." just as easily as "[Your] understanding and acceptance of this will enhance your judgement". One could even elide OP's "one's", though that does sound slightly "starchy" to me. | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:33 | comment | added | user21497 | It's not dangling; this is an elliptical sentence. Words have been omitted, e.g., "If you have an understanding of history, it enhances your judgment". | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:32 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | No, because if I had to be any more specific about the particular understanding I had in mind there, I'd have to say I was talking about your understanding. I could, of course, have said "Understanding and acceptance of this will help...". And still preceded it with "Your", or "An", if I'd felt like it. Come to that, it would only be slightly unusual to precede it with "The". Lots of ways of phrasing things are perfectly normal. | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:30 | answer | added | user21497 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:24 | comment | added | matt3141 | @FumbleFingers It looks like "understanding" is dangling in the first example. Would you say "understanding" and "an understanding" are equivalent? | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:18 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's entirely a stylistic choice in this example. Understanding and accepting this will help you in similar constructions. Seriously, it looks like General Reference to me. | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:16 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:11 | history | asked | matt3141 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |