"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? – choster Nov 13 '17 at 19:19
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Actually i am a little new to this setup thank you for helping me – user136298 Nov 13 '17 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. – BillJ Nov 13 '17 at 19:32
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: – Abid Ali Nov 13 '17 at 19:45
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Swimming in the ocean has been Sharon’s passion since she was five years old. – Abid Ali Nov 13 '17 at 19:46
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The important point is that "moving" and "swimming" are verbs not nouns. They head their respective clauses – BillJ Nov 13 '17 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? – BillJ Nov 13 '17 at 19:54
