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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

gerunds as adjectives.

Can we use gerunds as adjectives like the sentence below.

I joined a team believing.What else can we use as adjectives?
  

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Anonymous I joined a team believing. This is not a coherent thought. Moreover, gerunds are used in a sentence where nouns are used, not adjectives, so "gerunds as adjectives" is as strange as "2, 4, and 6 as odd numbers".

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous I joined a team believing.
  • This is not a coherent thought.
  • Moreover, gerunds are used in a sentence where nouns are used, not adjectives, so "gerunds as adjectives" is as strange as "2, 4, and 6 as odd numbers".
  • I think you may mean "participles as adjectives".
  • That's possible.
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AnonymousI joined a team believing.
This is not a coherent thought. Moreover, gerunds are used in a sentence where nouns are used, not adjectives, so "gerunds as adjectives" is as strange as "2, 4, and 6 as odd numbers".

I think you may mean "participles as adjectives". That's possible.

You will probably have to rephrase your
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That sentence is no good.

Before I offer a corrected one, please explain.
Who was believing, the team or you?
What, in a few words, was being believed?
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Yes.I mean Can we use participle as adverbs not adjectives Emotion: big smile ? For example , I can write I fell asleep while reading but it's mor
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AnonymousI fell asleep reading.
This is a very frequently asked question.

There is some controversy about whether 'reading' should be called an adjective or an adverb in such structures. The best description I've ever read of it is that it is a subject oriented secondary predicate. (1. I feel asleep. 2. I was reading.)

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