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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

gerund phrase and gerund at the same time?

Others may benefit from my correcting posts.

Question:
Is the highlighted part of the sentence a gerund verbal. If so, after 'my' comes a noun, and my sentence is correct.

question2:
gerund and gerund phrase are two things.
Is gerund a subset of gerund phrase?

  

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Hello IK In your sentence, "correcting" is a gerund, and "posts" is the object of that gerund. I would take "gerund phrase" to mean "a phrase headed by a gerund"; in which case, yes, you could call "my correcting posts" a "gerund phrase". All the best, MrP

— MrPedantic

  • Hello IK In your sentence, "correcting" is a gerund, and "posts" is the object of that gerund.
  • I would take "gerund phrase" to mean "a phrase headed by a gerund"; in which case, yes, you could call "my correcting posts" a "gerund phrase".
  • All the best, MrP
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Hello IK

In your sentence, "correcting" is a gerund, and "posts" is the object of that gerund.

I would take "gerund phrase" to mean "a phrase headed by a gerund"; in which case, yes, you could call "my correcting posts" a "gerund phrase".

All the best,

MrP
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But on another reading, posts is the object of the preposition from, and correcting is a participle/adjective modifying posts. In fact, it was the first reading I had when I read the sentence. It was only after reading Mr. P.'s interpretation that I realized there was another possible reading.

CJ
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Yes, indeed, there are two interpretations.
I am very grateful to you: Jim and Mr.Pedantic.
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