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May I ask ..... sometimes I confuse about whether to use a noun form of a verb or to use gerund? For instance, The government disagree about the construction of the infrastructure. /The government disagree about the constructing infrastructure./The government disagree about constructing the infrastructure.....which one is the appropriate one? This question has been confusing to me for such a long time T.T Thank you.
Respected Sir your explanation is very good. You use simple language such that an average man can also explicitly understand the concept easily. Thanks for such efforts from the bottom of my heart.
All 4 God I don't know what you were going to say, but just so you know, the second part of your feedback could hardly be conceived as a compliment, coming from someone who is a student. Besides, it sounds awkward and rather patronising as well. Have a cracking day!
I am a native English speaker taking a basic college composition class, yet this was information I didn't know. Thank you Alex for your clear and straightforward explanations.
"She is running a business" is definitely continuous, but when you flip it and start with "Running a business..." it becomes a gerund. Like I mentioned in the video, think of gerunds as verbal nouns, since they can have both the characteristics of a noun or a verb depending on the context. Really, the most important thing is that you know how to use them in a sentence.
Hi Alex. It seems that in your 4th sentence, the word "riding" is not a gerund 'cause in the context it is used as an adjective and not a noun, therefore it is a participle.
Listening (correct me if I am mistaking) to this professor I feel like a native american speaker lol, I've understood everything he said in the explanation. Alex, you are a great teacher!
Good question. The gerund meaning is the second one, since "food" is a noun, as is "cooking" in this case. For the first meaning, you would mostly commonly say "I don't like it when she cooks" to avoid confusion.
Lo mejor para aprender los gerundios del inglés es realizar multitud de ejercicios para asimilarlos bien. También hay que practicar conversación y no obsesionarse por dominarlo todo: poco a poco se puede ir desenvolviendo uno mejor con el inglés con la práctica.
the more I learn grammar, the worse my ability of speaking becomes but what can I do!? I am a grammar addict though I am not a teacher!!! thank you Alex!
Excuse. In this part 5:16 you said that the gerund is a gerund of a "POSSESSIVE PRONOUN". Is that correct? I think you wanted to say "POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE" Right?
José Luis, Pudiste aclarar esta duda? Es un adjetivo posesivo en lugar de pronombre posesivo? Porque no entiendo aqui el ejemplo siendo un pron. Posesivo, yours? Your sería adj. Posesivo
Excellent! Thank you for the information! Example 4 (I saw him riding...) doesn't look like a gerund to me though (maybe due to my mother tongue). It's more like a present participle on my mind, which works more like an adjective (eg The running man, the smoking barrel). I'd like to hear an informed native speaker's view on that, thanks a lot.
Hi. At example number 4. RIDING looks like a CONTINOUS VERB, Jim was riding his bike. Am I wrong thinking like that? Like I SAW JIM AND HE WAS RIDING HIS BIKE.
PRADEESH KR Its a certain continuous tense. Someone is riding or was riding and you see or saw them. As a result, you say "I see him riding the bike" or "I saw him riding the bike". Normally, you can either say "I saw him ride a bike" or "I saw him riding a bike", depends on what you want to emphasize more.
actually no, it is not about emphasizing " i saw him ride his bike" i was there the whole time-start to finish "i saw him riding his bike" i was sitting on a bank and he passed through the road
As we know, which word or phrases can modify noun/pronoun that is an adjective. In the example of 4, you said that 'riding' is a gerund because of object complement but there also we can say 'riding' is a present participle. Could you explain the mystery? please sir
With all due respect, example no. 4 is without a doubt a present participle, not a gerund. It does have a tense; it does have a subject; it does refer to a progressive action within a specific period in the past.
I really apreciate a lot your help! I always wanted to know better the different uses of gerund and I tried to find out in a more systemic way like this but I couldn't find out any good explanation in any grammar Also I asked to some native speakers but they didn't know how to provide me a good response. You solved what for me was one of the most difficult questions in English grammar!!
Running is not good for your heart. Brisk walking is good for your heart. Everything that causes your heart to beat fast or very fast is not goot for your heart.
Thank you very much! But why can't we say: I'm interested in improvement ? Is it because we need to explain more? I'm really confused about using gerunds or real nouns such as this case. Can we say that gerund in this case (example 5) must be always followed by something else, or else we just use the noun "improvement"?
Hi, good day to you! I hope you are doing fine. You can actually say “I’m interested in improvement” which this sentence refers to all aspects of what you want to improve. “I’m interested in improving myself”, on the other hand, has another meaning because you specify something that you want to improve. Both of them are correct. The only difference is their meaning.
I love your videos. They are always clear and easily understood. I have one doubt here. In the 4th sentence 'I saw Jim riding his bike'. Is 'riding' in this sentence a gerund? A gerund has a noun function and must answer the question what? or who? put to the verb, right? It must follow the rules of a noun. Here 'riding his bike' is giving us more information about Jim and that would make it a participle (adjective) wouldn't it? If we were to expand it, it would read: I saw Jim who was riding his bike. So I can make it a relative clause. So it still fits a participle than a gerund. Please clarify. Thanks in advance.
I've learned so much from your existing lessons. Watching them is a pleasure for me. Any time I have chance to study I am trying to get something on your channel
What about the use gerunds vs. nouns? If there is an alternative like (enhancement vs. enhancing or representation vs. representing), what should I choose - noun or gerund? Please, give your tips. This is generally topical when writing scientific articles. I haven't got a lucid rule for it yet.
why gerunds isn't a verb but it's sound like a verb.............that is the most confused part............and it sound like a verb than a noun............why it is a noun???
Hello Ma'mm, I am Amit Gupta FROM India. there is a question to understand passive of gerund and infinitive. 1. The home(Non doer) needs to be painted ( Passive of infinitive ,Both grammatically and sense are passive) / The Home needs to paint(Active of infinitive, only sense is passive) 2. The Home (Non doer) needs being painted(Passive of infinitive ,Both grammatically and sense are passive) /The home needs painting(Active of gerund, only sense is passive). Here i want to understand why passive of gerund one is wrong ? Request kindly respond
it's a great lesson. Thanks. But I have a question for you. The fourth example you provided that "I saw Tim riding his bike". There is "riding" seems like a present participle rather than a gerund. Because it describes Tim. Or am I making a mistake?
Hello alex .your teaching is great as always .can I ask you a question ? "Adam spends his free time ,writing short stories . I am kind of confused about whether "writing " is a gerund or participle and which kind of gerund or participle is this ? Excuse my bad English
Hi. I have a question and I appreciate it if you would answer it. In the following sentence, how can we ask a question that its answer is "trying to clean the place up"? In fact, I'm trying to check the sentence out grammatically and I want to know what part of speech does the gerund phrase"trying blabla" have?( it's an object, object complement, or what) Just before my in-laws arrived, I rushed around madly trying to clean the place up.
HI teacher , how do you do ? Iam writing to you to let you know that I have been watching yours lessons , and it helps me alot to improve my english. on the other hand ,I want you to be more precise in explaining more about this issue, in how to use gerund for jobs.
To form the gerund form in english you simply take the infiniti + ing. Ex. to talk talking to view viewing to sing singing There are some irregular forms. Verb that end in with e you drop it and add ing. Ex. to dance dancing to make making to ride riding to age aging
I discovered gerunds today and every website I went to failed to explain it properly. Thank you for explaining this in a way I would wrap my brain around. (My co-workers will also probably be grateful as they won't have to listen to my disgruntled ranting on the subject anymore =^_^;;=)
Another question: When you say, "I don't like her cooking," there are two meanings that come to mind: 1.) I don't like it when she cooks (I don't like the situation in which she is cooking) 2.) I don't like the food that she makes. Which one is the gerund?
so is it a noun or a verb.............if it's a noun say it a noun..............if it's a verb say it a verb.............why English like to confused people
i just have one doubt -- that "waking up" you put, it's gerund because of going with verb hate? [following the rules of verb to, ing] or you are putting ing for being an activity? it's a dumb quest., but I want to make sure, thx. If smb can answer it, please do it, thx.
Does 4 really make sense? Isn't it correct with was? Sir if you see this don't ignore it , cause this is where I get confused. And sir whats the difference between subject/object complement and present participle as adjective Like for question four, was and without was
Hi, which of these is correct and why:1. The issue relates to billing of an asset.2. The issue relates to billing an asset. The 1st one sounds better to me, but I don't know why from the grammar perspective.
My school teaches it with different words such as subject, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition and predicate nominative. So which one means what? I would like t know because i am 2 days away from my english mid term and I am somewhat lost. Thank you
It'd be cool if you could write on a board in front of you which is projected up behind you, so that you could avoid talking to the board ;) Otherwise I think your lessons are great and simple. Thanks.
I don’t understand why u said that number 3 is a subject complement but the subject is hating the object of repetition in the example. Wouldn’t that be exactly the same as number 2, gerund functioning as an object as opposed to a subject complement?
After the verbs such as see, hear, feel, watch, observe etc.comes not Gerund but participle 1. I saw you dancing. Dancing isnot a gerund but participle 1 . I studied so. Isn't it right?
Sometime I feel like in many reading gerund sound like a verb, but in grammar it's a noun right...........It' had been confused me. it feel like gerund is a verb when read or write.............because of this problem, that why sometime some of my sentences aren't make any sense.
1- which sentence is correct "thanks for your help" or" thanks for your helping " 2- which sentence is correct "thanks for your help me " or" thanks for your helping me "
I have a question in sentence 4 that has a gerund as an object complement. As you said riding modifies Jim; but since Jim is a pronoun, Can riding have a noun function? A gerund always has to have a noun function, doesn't it?
Sir could you please explain me some day this structure: to word + ing. For example: ``Two tips to Improving your life.`` Or other cases similar to it.
I also noticed this sentence in another book (it has the support of many global,environmental and *conservation* organisations) why do they use noun(consevation) after (and) am I wrong when I think they should use adj instead of noun because they used adj before (and) ?
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May I ask ..... sometimes I confuse about whether to use a noun form of a verb or to use gerund? For instance, The government disagree about the construction of the infrastructure. /The government disagree about the constructing infrastructure./The government disagree about constructing the infrastructure.....which one is the appropriate one? This question has been confusing to me for such a long time T.T Thank you.
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Respected Sir your explanation is very good. You use simple language such that an average man can also explicitly understand the concept easily. Thanks for such efforts from the bottom of my heart.
I like to play road hockey, and in the spring and summer I sometimes play soccer. Those have always been my two favourite sports to play.
Alex, have you ever seen the inside of a Turkish Prison?
You're right! I was using the quick informal way. It's very common to hear "What I love/hate/don't like/adore/want most/more..." informally.
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All 4 God I don't know what you were going to say, but just so you know, the second part of your feedback could hardly be conceived as a compliment, coming from someone who is a student. Besides, it sounds awkward and rather patronising as well.
Have a cracking day!
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I am a native English speaker taking a basic college composition class, yet this was information I didn't know. Thank you Alex for your clear and straightforward explanations.
Thanks for sharing~ with all due respect, just a small question about the 4th one, I thought it was supposed to be a participle? no?
"She is running a business" is definitely continuous, but when you flip it and start with "Running a business..." it becomes a gerund.
Like I mentioned in the video, think of gerunds as verbal nouns, since they can have both the characteristics of a noun or a verb depending on the context.
Really, the most important thing is that you know how to use them in a sentence.
I saw Jim riding his bike. Sir here ' riding' qualifies the noun ' Jim' . so it should be present participle but not gerund.
subject here is I and verb is saw and object is Jim. Riding is an extra explanation of jim -- it becomes complement of object.
Yes, Miguel is right. In a participle, the rule is the subject of the independent clause must be the same of the participle.
Yes and in the last sentence gerund is used as an object with a determiner only
And in the 3rd sentence gerund is actually again used as an object
Hi Alex. It seems that in your 4th sentence, the word "riding" is not a gerund 'cause in the context it is used as an adjective and not a noun, therefore it is a participle.
Listening (correct me if I am mistaking) to this professor I feel like a native american speaker lol, I've understood everything he said in the explanation. Alex, you are a great teacher!
correct me if I'm mistaken
Good question. The gerund meaning is the second one, since "food" is a noun, as is "cooking" in this case. For the first meaning, you would mostly commonly say "I don't like it when she cooks" to avoid confusion.
4th one is not pure gerund example, it is hybrid gerund/participle
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brilliant lesson..its a common doubt for everyone...thanks a lot
Lo mejor para aprender los gerundios del inglés es realizar multitud de ejercicios para asimilarlos bien. También hay que practicar conversación y no obsesionarse por dominarlo todo: poco a poco se puede ir desenvolviendo uno mejor con el inglés con la práctica.
Your explanation is very clear ,,,,, thank you :)
the more I learn grammar, the worse my ability of speaking becomes but what can I do!? I am a grammar addict though I am not a teacher!!!
thank you Alex!
Excuse. In this part 5:16 you said that the gerund is a gerund of a "POSSESSIVE PRONOUN". Is that correct? I think you wanted to say "POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE" Right?
José Luis, Pudiste aclarar esta duda? Es un adjetivo posesivo en lugar de pronombre posesivo? Porque no entiendo aqui el ejemplo siendo un pron. Posesivo, yours? Your sería adj. Posesivo
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Excellent! Thank you for the information! Example 4 (I saw him riding...) doesn't look like a gerund to me though (maybe due to my mother tongue). It's more like a present participle on my mind, which works more like an adjective (eg The running man, the smoking barrel). I'd like to hear an informed native speaker's view on that, thanks a lot.
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Hi. At example number 4. RIDING looks like a CONTINOUS VERB, Jim was riding his bike. Am I wrong thinking like that? Like I SAW JIM AND HE WAS RIDING HIS BIKE.
Claudio Santos it's not a past continuous tense(but literally its a continuous verb) .here, the action RIDING HIS BIKE saw and stated by someone.
PRADEESH KR Its a certain continuous tense. Someone is riding or was riding and you see or saw them. As a result, you say "I see him riding the bike" or "I saw him riding the bike". Normally, you can either say "I saw him ride a bike" or "I saw him riding a bike", depends on what you want to emphasize more.
actually no, it is not about emphasizing " i saw him ride his bike" i was there the whole time-start to finish
"i saw him riding his bike" i was sitting on a bank and he passed through the road
In this sentence, ' riding' is not a gerund, it's a participle.
@@EnglishwithVennila correct. because before to participle objective case will come, and remains will be participle phrase.
As we know, which word or phrases can modify noun/pronoun that is an adjective.
In the example of 4, you said that 'riding' is a gerund because of object complement but there also we can say 'riding' is a present participle. Could you explain the mystery? please sir
Yes, it's a participle and it's the object complement.
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With all due respect, example no. 4 is without a doubt a present participle, not a gerund.
It does have a tense; it does have a subject; it does refer to a progressive action within a specific period in the past.
Hi Alex,please give one lesson on infinitive becoz I am very confuse regarding this.Thank you.
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Infinitives are easy its ( to+verb )
I really apreciate a lot your help! I always wanted to know better the different uses of gerund and I tried to find out in a more systemic way like this but I couldn't find out any good explanation in any grammar Also I asked to some native speakers but they didn't know how to provide me a good response. You solved what for me was one of the most difficult questions in English grammar!!
Reading is good for pronountiation .thanks for teaching .
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Running is not good for your heart. Brisk walking is good for your heart. Everything that causes your heart to beat fast or very fast is not goot for your heart.
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But why can't we say: I'm interested in improvement ? Is it because we need to explain more? I'm really confused about using gerunds or real nouns such as this case. Can we say that gerund in this case (example 5) must be always followed by something else, or else we just use the noun "improvement"?
Hi, good day to you! I hope you are doing fine. You can actually say “I’m interested in improvement” which this sentence refers to all aspects of what you want to improve. “I’m interested in improving myself”, on the other hand, has another meaning because you specify something that you want to improve. Both of them are correct. The only difference is their meaning.
you explain this better than my teacher. i bet this video will blow up even more since everyone is going to online school
I love your videos. They are always clear and easily understood. I have one doubt here. In the 4th sentence 'I saw Jim riding his bike'. Is 'riding' in this sentence a gerund? A gerund has a noun function and must answer the question what? or who? put to the verb, right? It must follow the rules of a noun. Here 'riding his bike' is giving us more information about Jim and that would make it a participle (adjective) wouldn't it? If we were to expand it, it would read: I saw Jim who was riding his bike. So I can make it a relative clause. So it still fits a participle than a gerund. Please clarify. Thanks in advance.
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In "I saw Jim riding his bike", "riding" is participle!
Actually that is half-gerundial construction :( and yes, that looks the same like particle
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Sir injection related sentences please
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That’s nice to hear! Thank you. :)
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Very clear... Thanks
What about the fourth example? Isn't it the Present Participle Clause? (Aka ing-clause)
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Thank your for this informative video lesson. But I want to ask the difference between gerund as "Object Complement" and "Indirect Object."
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I've learned so much from your existing lessons. Watching them is a pleasure for me. Any time I have chance to study I am trying to get something on your channel
I'm ready for my gerund quiz tomorrow thank you!
Very useful lesson Alex. Only 8 minutes to make it clear how to use gerunds! You are simply the best! Thank you 😊
You're very welcome! Thanks again for watching, Mauro. Now practice, practice, practice.
Great sir thank you
What about the use gerunds vs. nouns? If there is an alternative like (enhancement vs. enhancing or representation vs. representing), what should I choose - noun or gerund? Please, give your tips. This is generally topical when writing scientific articles. I haven't got a lucid rule for it yet.
i am very happy after i have watched your videos coz they make me clearly about what i have confused for a long time.
why gerunds isn't a verb but it's sound like a verb.............that is the most confused part............and it sound like a verb than a noun............why it is a noun???
Dear Alex, in 4 sentence...it's very similar with Present Participle Active. I'm confused. Jim riding his bike...
I understood now, thank you for explained more about gerund 🙏🙏
I saw Jim riding his bike. I think riding should be a participle as it modifies the noun 'Jim'. Please response I am confused............
Hello Ma'mm, I am Amit Gupta FROM India. there is a question to understand passive of gerund and infinitive. 1. The home(Non doer) needs to be painted ( Passive of infinitive ,Both grammatically and sense are passive) / The Home needs to paint(Active of infinitive, only sense is passive) 2. The Home (Non doer) needs being painted(Passive of infinitive ,Both grammatically and sense are passive) /The home needs painting(Active of gerund, only sense is passive). Here i want to understand why passive of gerund one is wrong ? Request kindly respond
it's a great lesson. Thanks. But I have a question for you. The fourth example you provided that "I saw Tim riding his bike". There is "riding" seems like a present participle rather than a gerund. Because it describes Tim. Or am I making a mistake?
Hello alex .your teaching is great as always .can I ask you a question ? "Adam spends his free time ,writing short stories . I am kind of confused about whether "writing " is a gerund or participle and which kind of gerund or participle is this ? Excuse my bad English
great video, better than the other explanations on Wikipedia. Thanks for the helpful instruction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He hates wakING UP?
What I hate most is repeatING myself ?
...your bossING around ?
I’m still puzzled with those questions
Hi. I have a question and I appreciate it if you would answer it.
In the following sentence, how can we ask a question that its answer is "trying to clean the place up"?
In fact, I'm trying to check the sentence out grammatically and I want to know what part of speech does the gerund phrase"trying blabla" have?( it's an object, object complement, or what)
Just before my in-laws arrived, I rushed around madly trying to clean the place up.
HI teacher , how do you do ? Iam writing to you to let you know that I have been watching yours lessons , and it helps me alot to improve my english. on the other hand ,I want you to be more precise in explaining more about this issue, in how to use gerund for jobs.
To form the gerund form in english you simply take the infiniti + ing.
Ex.
to talk talking
to view viewing
to sing singing
There are some irregular forms. Verb that end in with e you drop it and add ing.
Ex.
to dance dancing
to make making
to ride riding
to age aging
I discovered gerunds today and every website I went to failed to explain it properly. Thank you for explaining this in a way I would wrap my brain around. (My co-workers will also probably be grateful as they won't have to listen to my disgruntled ranting on the subject anymore =^_^;;=)
Another question:
When you say, "I don't like her cooking," there are two meanings that come to mind:
1.) I don't like it when she cooks (I don't like the situation in which she is cooking)
2.) I don't like the food that she makes.
Which one is the gerund?
wait a minute........is repeating........that is a present continuous??? it's not a gerund............why don't you explain this part???
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I really respect you and your job but in the 4 th sentence the word “riding” is NOT gerund, thats PARTICIPLE construction) And I can prove that.
so is it a noun or a verb.............if it's a noun say it a noun..............if it's a verb say it a verb.............why English like to confused people
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i just have one doubt -- that "waking up" you put, it's gerund because of going with verb hate? [following the rules of verb to, ing] or you are putting ing for being an activity? it's a dumb quest., but I want to make sure, thx. If smb can answer it, please do it, thx.
Does 4 really make sense?
Isn't it correct with was?
Sir if you see this don't ignore it , cause this is where I get confused.
And sir whats the difference between subject/object complement and present participle as adjective
Like for question four, was and without was
Hi, which of these is correct and why:1. The issue relates to billing of an asset.2. The issue relates to billing an asset. The 1st one sounds better to me, but I don't know why from the grammar perspective.
You should add a "the billing" to either sentence.
You should add a "the billing" to either sentence.
My school teaches it with different words such as subject, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition and predicate nominative. So which one means what? I would like t know because i am 2 days away from my english mid term and I am somewhat lost.
Thank you
It'd be cool if you could write on a board in front of you which is projected up behind you, so that you could avoid talking to the board ;) Otherwise I think your lessons are great and simple. Thanks.
I don’t understand why u said that number 3 is a subject complement but the subject is hating the object of repetition in the example. Wouldn’t that be exactly the same as number 2, gerund functioning as an object as opposed to a subject complement?
After the verbs such as see, hear, feel, watch, observe etc.comes not Gerund but participle 1. I saw you dancing. Dancing isnot a gerund but participle 1 . I studied so. Isn't it right?
I have a question about no. 4..the RIDING for me is the INDIRECT OBJECT, Is it correst?pls. Answer
It's very good explicated thanks a lot. That was very helpful....
Sometime I feel like in many reading gerund sound like a verb, but in grammar it's a noun right...........It' had been confused me. it feel like gerund is a verb when read or write.............because of this problem, that why sometime some of my sentences aren't make any sense.
Very clear very clear. Sir I one request you. Explain more subjects complement of gerund and object complement of gerund
1- which sentence is correct "thanks for your help" or" thanks for your helping " 2- which sentence is correct "thanks for your help me " or" thanks for your helping me "
I saw Jim riding his bike. Does it not mean.. Jim was riding his bike and I saw it . Riding can be present participle. So how can it be gerund?
Hi, I didn't undestand... why you use "bossing"?
Could you write "she doesn't like your BOSS her around" too?
He caught her stealing a diamond ring. Please tell me whether stealing is participle or gerund.
I have a question in sentence 4 that has a gerund as an object complement. As you said riding modifies Jim; but since Jim is a pronoun, Can riding have a noun function? A gerund always has to have a noun function, doesn't it?
Sir could you please explain me some day this structure: to word + ing. For example: ``Two tips to Improving your life.`` Or other cases similar to it.
Thanks 😊👍
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I saw jim ridding his bike.........so confused..........when do we use gerund and when do we use the verb ride his bike instead???
I also noticed this sentence in another book
(it has the support of many global,environmental and *conservation* organisations)
why do they use noun(consevation) after (and)
am I wrong when I think they should use adj instead of noun because they used adj before (and) ?