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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
gerund + adverb = gerund ? Is this correct ?
Communicating effectively and anticipating customer needs are crucial to high quality customer service.
In above sentence all are in parallel form.. And i know that sentence is grammatically correct.
As I understand, "communicating" is a gerund form..But "Communicating effectively" is also a gerund ?
for some reason, i am getting confused by usages like this.
I realise that sentence can be written using "effective communication and anticipation of customer needs", but i just need to get comfortable with kind of usage mentioned above..
Would appreciate if one can explain me a bit. Thank you.. I
Sharad.
In above sentence all are in parallel form.. And i know that sentence is grammatically correct.
As I understand, "communicating" is a gerund form..But "Communicating effectively" is also a gerund ?
for some reason, i am getting confused by usages like this.
I realise that sentence can be written using "effective communication and anticipation of customer needs", but i just need to get comfortable with kind of usage mentioned above..
Would appreciate if one can explain me a bit. Thank you.. I
Sharad.
Top answer
The word 'gerund' is going out of favour, with ' -ing verb form ' now preferred; the result, however, is the same: a gerund is an -ing verb form used as a noun. In your initial sentence, communicating effectively and anticipating customer needs are nonfinite clauses acting as nouns (in this case, the sentence's compound subject): this makes their heads, the -ing verb forms, gerunds-- so the gerunds are communicating and anticipating . Communicating effectively and anticipating customer needs are gerundival clauses , or just ' -ing clauses'.
- The word 'gerund' is going out of favour, with ' -ing verb form ' now preferred; the result, however, is the same: a gerund is an -ing verb form used as a noun.
- In your initial sentence, communicating effectively and anticipating customer needs are nonfinite clauses acting as nouns (in this case, the sentence's compound subject): this makes their heads, the -ing verb forms, gerunds-- so the gerunds are communicating and anticipating .
- Communicating effectively and anticipating customer needs are gerundival clauses , or just ' -ing clauses'.
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The word 'gerund' is going out of favour, with '-ing verb form' now preferred; the result, however, is the same: a gerund is an -ing verb form used as a noun.
In your initial sentence, communicating effectively and anticipating customer needs are nonfinite clauses acting as nouns (in this case, the sentence's compound subject): this makes their heads,
In your initial sentence, communicating effectively and anticipating customer needs are nonfinite clauses acting as nouns (in this case, the sentence's compound subject): this makes their heads,
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thank you Mister Micawber.. Just another question on parallelism of gerunds..
Why isn't the following sentence considered parallel ? Thank you..
Effective communication, anticipation of customer needs and learning from mistakes are crucial to high quality service..
Why isn't the following sentence considered parallel ? Thank you..
Effective communication, anticipation of customer needs and learning from mistakes are crucial to high quality service..
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They are loosely parallel (i.e. all nouns), but not strictly so. The first two are nominal in both form and function (communication, anticipation), but the third (learning) is only a noun in function; it is an -ing verb form.
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