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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Gerund or Not ???
In my English mini quiz, there was a question were I was suppose to fill in the blanks with the correct keyword.
-The spa was filled with cordial _______.
I wrote (consoling), but the correct answer is (hospitality).
I thought hard of why I thought the answer was consoling after we got the papers back, and then I figured out that I thought of it as a gerund.
I asked my teacher and she told me that it is not a gerund.
Can you please tell me why it is not a gerund, and also when I though of it deeply somehow it sounds right for me to say:
vascular exercising
sweet loving
BUT I know it is wrong, and I was hoping that you could point out to me why it is wrong and how I am suppose to think and look at it.
Thank you all in advance
-The spa was filled with cordial _______.
I wrote (consoling), but the correct answer is (hospitality).
I thought hard of why I thought the answer was consoling after we got the papers back, and then I figured out that I thought of it as a gerund.
I asked my teacher and she told me that it is not a gerund.
Can you please tell me why it is not a gerund, and also when I though of it deeply somehow it sounds right for me to say:
vascular exercising
sweet loving
BUT I know it is wrong, and I was hoping that you could point out to me why it is wrong and how I am suppose to think and look at it.
Thank you all in advance
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In that sentence, 'consoling' would be a gerund, since it is modified by the adjective 'cordial' and is the object of the preposition 'with'—but it makes no sense in that sentence: it is the wrong vocabulary choice. Cordial consoling, vascular exercising, sweet loving— these can all be gerunds, or they can all be verbs. It depends on how they are used.
- In that sentence, 'consoling' would be a gerund, since it is modified by the adjective 'cordial' and is the object of the preposition 'with'—but it makes no sense in that sentence: it is the wrong vocabulary choice.
- Cordial consoling, vascular exercising, sweet loving— these can all be gerunds, or they can all be verbs.
- It depends on how they are used.
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In that sentence, 'consoling' would be a gerund, since it is modified by the adjective 'cordial' and is the object of the preposition 'with'—but it makes no sense in that sentence: it is the wrong vocabulary choice.
Cordial consoling, vascular exercising, sweet loving— these can all be gerunds, or they can all be verbs. It depends on how they are used.
Cordial consoling, vascular exercising, sweet loving— these can all be gerunds, or they can all be verbs. It depends on how they are used.
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