"Cheating" gerund or present participle of verb "Cheat"
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MaryDreamilton · 46-50, F
It can be either. A gerund is a part of a verb that behaves as if it was a noun ("I've had just about all I can take of his cheating"). The present participle is something like "He's cheating again".
Fertilization · 36-40, F
I will go with gerund
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Really · 80-89, M
@ElwoodBlues You, sir, are an oracle! I think the last time I said 'gerund' was about 50 years ago, in defence against my boss. He objected to my use of the words 'all reinforcing shall be.....' in a structural specification. He said that 'reinforcing' was a verb and could not be used like a noun. From somewhere in my past education I dredged up 'gerund' and told him what it was. I believe he went to the library that night and looked it up (pre-computers). He never mentioned it again, nor forgave me for not acting intellectually inferior to himself.
ElwoodBlues · M
@Really Decades ago, I made the terrible mistake of choosing Latin as my high school language. By Christmas of the first year I hated it, but colleges wanted two years of a language and I wasn't going to burn a year of Latin and then switch to two more of French or something. So I sweated it out. It was good for my vocabulary and I really learned grammar from Latin, such as gerunds and participles; imperfect tenses, the subjunctive voice, all kinds of good stuff. And now when my wife & I travel, we usually depend on her practical language - Spanish!!
Really · 80-89, M
@ElwoodBlues I had 2 (3?) years of Latin in high school. Mostly forgotten now; but I agree about its general usefulness re. grammar and vocabulary in later life. So often I can 'intuit' the meaning of a word I haven't seen before.
First day "Nobby" told the class: 'You have one week to learn never to use objective case with the verb "to be". After that the first offender gets one of the belt (the tawse); the next gets two, and so on till it stops.' It worked!
Yes, we had corporal punishment; sometimes blistered hands - but it hasn't made me into a psychopath.
What really bugs me nowadays is that it's become fashionable to always use the subjective case, as in 'send it to my sister and I'. "to I" - Really?
Rationally I know that so long as accurate communication occurs, grammar is irrelevant; but if you were strapped for ignoring it there's an embedded reaction to others doing so, and it never goes away.
First day "Nobby" told the class: 'You have one week to learn never to use objective case with the verb "to be". After that the first offender gets one of the belt (the tawse); the next gets two, and so on till it stops.' It worked!
Yes, we had corporal punishment; sometimes blistered hands - but it hasn't made me into a psychopath.
What really bugs me nowadays is that it's become fashionable to always use the subjective case, as in 'send it to my sister and I'. "to I" - Really?
Rationally I know that so long as accurate communication occurs, grammar is irrelevant; but if you were strapped for ignoring it there's an embedded reaction to others doing so, and it never goes away.