The two questions in my grammar book: 1)"Many people claim —— sundaes and many towns around the world pretend —- birthplaces of ice creams. A) to have invented / to be B) to invent / to have been answer: A 2)It is quite common for a historic high-rise building — into a residental building. A)Having … Read more
For example, as part of the information message of some computer script: Snapshotting the file… Can we write snapshotting instead of taking the snapshot? Is it still correct? I’ve found an example usage of that word on Wikipedia, in the following context: … is not a snapshotting scheme but a system-level incremental backup service … … Read more
Good evening everyone and sorry for the question which I am not even sure how to ask properly. Here is the sentence: In this context, gene drives have been proposed as providing a new means of tackling a disease that still infects 200 million people and causes half a million deaths each year. [Gene Drive … Read more
Is this true? Not sure if Signup up is a gerund And if so does it need to modified by a possessive? It doesn’t sound right to me with “your” Answer Gerunds function like a noun while looking like a present participle. And we already know possessive pronouns (your, my, etc) can be followed by … Read more
Dozing in the sun at the beach after swimming, limbs exhausted, salt dring stiff in my hair. Cutting up vegetables into neat pieces. Flying into a city and at night seeing the lit gauze of its streets from the air. Cycling on a balmy night when the streets are quiet. Taking a bath when I’m … Read more
‘Do you agree to participate in rehearsal and research shows and interact with technical equipment’? I am wondering do I need to use ‘interact with’ or interacting with’ here? Answer You can use either the Infinitive (interact) here, or the Gerund with the preposition (to interacting). According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agree : AGREE transitive verb … Read more
I am not able to figure out why there is a gerund in this sentence: My mother convinced me to sing, without me initially wanting to. Could someone explain why there is a gerund? Is it a some kind of grammatical construction? Thank you very much in advance. Answer In a comment, BillJ wrote: There … Read more
“Just forget the egg for a minute, all right?” Harry hissed as Professor Flitwick went whizzing resignedly past them, landing on top of a large cabinet? Are the three verbs hissed, whizzing, and landing? Is whizzing a gerund? I am kind of confused here. Answer “Hissed”, “went”, “whizzing”, and “landing” are all verbs in the … Read more
For example: What is the difference between the meaning of “Health centers which conduct free medical check-ups…” and “Health centers conducting free medical check-ups…”? Thank you in advance. Answer [1] Health centers [which conduct free medical check-ups]. [2] Health centers [conducting free medical check-ups]. The difference is mainly a syntactic one. Gerund-participial and past participial … Read more
Today, when I was reading some meme on 9gag, I saw a phrase, and I tried rephrasing it in my head, but it went confusing and gave me this question in return 🙁 The never spoken rules of using escalators. The never spoken rules of escalators using. The never spoken rules of escalators usage. The … Read more
