11. Gerunds and Gerund Phrases. English Grammar Lesson
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This is very helpful. I sit with anger thinking about what 16 years of education did not teach me.
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Thank you for a speedy and helpful reply. You are a treasure
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@BrianWhistle haha! :))
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@mrthoth Thanks a lot for your explanation! So that adverbial phrase modifies the verb "Be"? Excuse me if I keep on asking but I need to be able to work with sentences like that and understand every constituent's function. By the way, Could you suggest any particular book? We've been only reading some chapters from Roderick Jacobs' English Syntax at class. Regards, RegisSaku
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It is very simple. After words like NEED, REQUIRE and WANT, the gerund is used in a passive sense:
Ex: your car needs washing or your car needs to be washed.
Hope this help
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In my class we had a test on 'phrases' he used these examples he said to only pay attention to the part in CAPS.
Example 1:
WITH THREE SODAS IN HER HAND, Tanya walked out of the convenience store.
Example 2:
BEFORE APPEARING ON STAGE, Elvis downed a quart of Pepsi.
What kind of phrases are these?
lockoutpmp 2 months ago
@lockoutpmp "With three sodas in her hand" is a prepositional phrase with another prepositional phrase, "in her hand," inside it. "Before appearing on stage" is a prepositional phrase with a gerund phrase, "appearing on stage" inside it, and the gerund phrase has a prepositional phrase, "on stage," inside it. There are also nominal phrases ("three sodas in her hand," "her hand," and "appearing on stage"--all gerund phrases are nominal phrases by definition).
mrthoth 2 months ago
@mrthoth; I hope you can help me. In the sentence: The kids were peevish after being for so long in the car; I understand that the clause (after being for so long in the car) is a subordinate clause. Is it correct? If it is so, what is the function for the gerund Being? Thanks!!
RegisSaku 4 months ago
@RegisSaku "After being for so long in the car" is not a clause in traditional grammar. A clause always contains a subject-verb combination, but there is none here. Instead, "after being for so long in the car" is a prepositional phrase functioning advebially. "Being" is a noun, not a verb. It is a gerund, and it functions as the object of the preposition "after". Gerunds are by definition nouns; they can never be verbs.
mrthoth 4 months ago
is gerund one of the 8 parts of speech?
moksshhh 6 months ago
@moksshhh No. Gerunds are always nouns (noun is a part of speech). So gerunds are a subset of nouns. The parts of speech are verb, noun, adjective, adverb, preposition, pronoun, conjunction, and interjection.
mrthoth 6 months ago