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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Cake-baking or baking cake or the activity of baking cake
Hi. When should we use the phrase "cake-baking" or the phrase "baking cake" in sentences like this?
cake-baking/baking cake will be fun.
How about this? I think this is correct.
The activity of baking cake will be fun.
As to the use of the kind of phrases like "cake-baking," could we put a noun before a gerund and punctuate the phrase with a hyphen? (I think I wrote correctly to reflect what I wanted say - not sure, though.) I think we could. If we could, is it done often in writing?
cake-baking/baking cake will be fun.
How about this? I think this is correct.
The activity of baking cake will be fun.
As to the use of the kind of phrases like "cake-baking," could we put a noun before a gerund and punctuate the phrase with a hyphen? (I think I wrote correctly to reflect what I wanted say - not sure, though.) I think we could. If we could, is it done often in writing?
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-- OK The activity of baking cake will be fun. -- No good. As to the use of the kind of phrases like "cake-baking," could we put a noun before a gerund and punctuate the phrase with a hyphen?
- -- OK The activity of baking cake will be fun.
- -- No good.
- As to the use of the kind of phrases like "cake-baking," could we put a noun before a gerund and punctuate the phrase with a hyphen?
- If we could, is it done often in writing?
- -- You can; it is done.
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Cake-baking / Baking a cake will be fun.-- OK
The activity of baking cake will be fun.-- No good.
As to the use of the kind of phrases like "cake-baking," could we put a noun before a gerund and punctuate the phrase with a hyphen? If we could, is it done often in writing?-- You can; it is done.
The activity of baking cake will be fun.-- No good.
As to the use of the kind of phrases like "cake-baking," could we put a noun before a gerund and punctuate the phrase with a hyphen? If we could, is it done often in writing?-- You can; it is done.
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