"Moving to an iphone from a normal phone is easy."
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
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Welcome to EL&U. We are not a free proofreading service or writers' workshop; for a better understanding of how to phrase questions so that they are answerable in our format, please take the site tour and review the help center. Specifically, questions should be presented so that they will be helpful to future visitors. Do you think the sentence is correct or not? What rule or guideline or pattern leads you to think it might be otherwise?– chosterCommented Nov 13, 2017 at 19:19
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Actually i am a little new to this setup thank you for helping me– user136298Commented Nov 13, 2017 at 19:23
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Your sentence is fine. The gerund-participial clause "Moving to an iphone from a normal phone" is the subject and "easy" functions as predicative complement of "be" in its ascriptive sense.– BillJCommented Nov 13, 2017 at 19:32
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ing form of verbs are present participle. The gerund looks exactly the same as a present participle, but it is useful to understand the difference between the two. The gerund always has the same function as a noun (although it looks like a verb). In the above example, moving is gerund.
Answer to your question is yes.
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Gerunds are words that are formed with verbs but act as nouns. For example:– UmerCommented Nov 13, 2017 at 19:45
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Swimming in the ocean has been Sharon’s passion since she was five years old.– UmerCommented Nov 13, 2017 at 19:46
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The important point is that "moving" and "swimming" are verbs not nouns. They head their respective clauses– BillJCommented Nov 13, 2017 at 19:49
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1It's important to grasp the difference between verbs and nouns. Just because "moving" and "swimming" are part of the subject (where nouns often occur) does not make them nouns - they are verbs. Don't call them nouns, okay?– BillJCommented Nov 13, 2017 at 19:54