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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Change of meanings, nouns >> gerunds
Looking at the dirence in meaning between abide (reside/stay/bear/endure) how is it that when it becomes abiding it only picks up the sense of permanece / complying with... Do gerunds usually pick up only nuanced meanings from the original noun?
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Hi, Looking at the dirence in meaning between abide (reside/stay/bear/endure) how is it that when it becomes abiding it only picks up the sense of permanece / complying with... Do gerunds usually pick up only nuanced meanings from the original noun? This sounds like a huge generalization.
- Hi, Looking at the dirence in meaning between abide (reside/stay/bear/endure) how is it that when it becomes abiding it only picks up the sense of permanece / complying with...
- Do gerunds usually pick up only nuanced meanings from the original noun?
- This sounds like a huge generalization.
- My first reaction is to say 'No'.
- If you pick a verb at random, like 'cut' for example, which has quite a number of meanings, it's just not true.
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Hi,
Looking at the dirence in meaning between abide (reside/stay/bear/endure) how is it that when it becomes abiding it only picks up the sense of permanece / complying with... Do gerunds usually pick up only nuanced meanings from the original noun?
This sounds like a huge generalization. My first reaction is to say 'No'.
If you pick a verb at random, like
Looking at the dirence in meaning between abide (reside/stay/bear/endure) how is it that when it becomes abiding it only picks up the sense of permanece / complying with... Do gerunds usually pick up only nuanced meanings from the original noun?
This sounds like a huge generalization. My first reaction is to say 'No'.
If you pick a verb at random, like
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Anon:
I would ask your question a bit differently.
First of all, the examples you give are verbs, not nouns.
In English, words often can have different parts of speech, and we can derive a noun from most of our verbs. I don't know any exceptions!
For example - endure - endurance; reside - residence; bear - bearing.
Second, the gerund is the same word as the verb
I would ask your question a bit differently.
First of all, the examples you give are verbs, not nouns.
In English, words often can have different parts of speech, and we can derive a noun from most of our verbs. I don't know any exceptions!
For example - endure - endurance; reside - residence; bear - bearing.
Second, the gerund is the same word as the verb
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