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Lcwang Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Gerund or present participle
0 Do you consider 'fishing' in the following sentence a gerund or a present participle? 02 br
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00 I’ll go 01 u 00 02 u 00 fishing 00 00 on the weekend. 0-
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00 I’ll go 01 u 00 02 u 00 fishing 00 00 on the weekend. 0-
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01 cite 10 Lcwang 12 cite 10 Do you consider 'fishing' in the following sentence a gerund or a present participle? 12 br10 For explanation purpose, I expanded your sentence as follows:
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10 I’ll go 11 u 10 12 u 10 fishing 10 10 on the weekend. 12 br
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01 cite 10 Goodman 12 cite 11 blockquote11 cite 20 Lcwang 22 cite 22 br
20 Do you consider 'fishing' in the following sentence a gerund or a present participle? 22 br
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20 I’ll go 21 u 20 22 u 20 fishing 20 20 on the weekend. 22 br
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0 I believe the older (OE) form of this structure was e.g. 02 br
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00 1. I'll go on fishing. 02 br
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00 This survives in the jocular or deliberately archaic form 02 br
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00 2. I'll go a-fishing. 02 br
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00 where the "a-" is a worn-down version of the OE preposition "an/on". (It also features as the prefix in words su
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00 1. I'll go on fishing. 02 br
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00 This survives in the jocular or deliberately archaic form 02 br
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00 2. I'll go a-fishing. 02 br
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00 where the "a-" is a worn-down version of the OE preposition "an/on". (It also features as the prefix in words su
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01 cite 10 Milky 12 cite 11 blockquote11 cite 20 Goodman 22 cite 21 blockquote21 cite 30 Lcwang 32 cite 32 br
30 Do you consider 'fishing' in the following sentence a gerund or a present participle? 32 br
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30 I’ll go 31 u 30 32 u 30
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01 cite 10 Lcwang 12 cite 10 Do you consider 'fishing' in the following sentence a gerund or a present participle? 12 br
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10 I’ll go 11 u 10 12 u 10 fishing 10 10 on the weekend. 10 I think "fishing" is a gerund, because people say #1 rather than #2. 12 br
10 [1.] I'll go trout f
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0 What you say is true, Paco, but the major problem I have with accepting 01 i 00 fishing 02 i 00 as a gerund is that -- if we take 'gerund' to mean (some kind of) 'noun' -- it makes 01 i 00 go 02 i 00 transitive. 02 br
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00 I'm inclined to agree to a certain extent with Goodman that it's like 01 i 00 go home 02 i 00 , where
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00 I'm inclined to agree to a certain extent with Goodman that it's like 01 i 00 go home 02 i 00 , where
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0 Hello CJ 02 br
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00 Yes, you are right. You can understand the "fishing" is a gerund and the gerund functions syntactically as an adverb to modify "go". It is a tradition of the English language you use often a noun phrase as an adverbial, isn’t it? Actually this "go fishing" was originally "go on fishing" as told by MrP. It is important to recognize that this "fishing" is a
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00 Yes, you are right. You can understand the "fishing" is a gerund and the gerund functions syntactically as an adverb to modify "go". It is a tradition of the English language you use often a noun phrase as an adverbial, isn’t it? Actually this "go fishing" was originally "go on fishing" as told by MrP. It is important to recognize that this "fishing" is a
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01 cite 10 Lcwang 12 cite 12 br10 I will fish on the weekend. 02 br
10 Do you consider 'fishing' in the following sentence a gerund or a present participle? 12 br
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10 I’ll go 11 u 10 12 u 10 fishing 10 10 on the weekend. 12 br
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01 cite 10 Paco2004 12 cite 10 Hello CJ 12 br
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10 Yes, you are right. You can understand the "fishing" is a gerund and the gerund functions syntactically as an adverb to modify "go". It is a tradition of the English language you use often a noun phrase as an adverbial, isn’t it? Actually this "go fishing" was originally "go
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