Gerunds as adverbial nouns?

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I love to go swimming. "to go" is the infinitive working as the direct object....would swimming be a gerund working as an adverbial noun?

Avangi · Accepted Answer

AnonymousI love to go swimming. "to go" is the infinitive working as the direct object..would swimming be a gerund working as an adverbial noun?

I rather doubt it. An "adverbial noun" functions as an adverb. The thing that makes a gerund a gerund is that it functions as a noun.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

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AnonymousI love to go swimming. "to go" is the infinitive working as the direct object..w

I love swimming = you are passionate about the sport.

I love to go swimming = Grammarwise, it's not wrong. As stand without further context, "to go" is not necessary, unless there is additional context.

To include"to go" in the sentnece:

I love to go swimming [in the early mornings during the hot summermonths]. I would say the underlined is a complex infinitve noun phrase functioning as a predicate.

Avangi · Answer

dimsumexpressnoun phrase functioning as a predicate.

Hi, dimsum.
I've been hearing some unfamiliar uses of the term "predicate" lately.
Wouldn't you say the main verb needs to be included in "a predicate"?

Best regards, - A.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

Avangi

Hi, dimsum.
I've been hearing some unfamiliar uses of the term "predicate" lately.
Wouldn't you say the main verb needs to be included in "a predicate"?[/quote]
Hi Avangi,

What I said was " A complex infinitive noun phrase functioning as a predicate.." where" to go" is the infintive verb. Did I miss something?

Avangi · Answer

I agree the problem is mine. I learned my definitions of "the subject of a sentence" and "the predicate of a sentence" in the 1940's. There's been a lot of water over the bridge since then (or under the dam).
At that time, the simple predicate of a simple sentence was the main (finite) verb. The complete predicate was the main verb plus its modifiers. There well may be other predicates that I haven't learned about. That's why I'm asking.
I hear very little about "the predicate" on EF, and as I said, much of that is strange to me.

Best regards, - A.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

AvangiI agree the problem is mine. I learned my definitions of "the subject of a sentence" and "the predicate of a sentence" in the 1940's. There's been a lot of water over the bridge since then (or under the dam).

In everyday life, does anyone really care what predicate is ? Only the English fanatics would spend the time to find out. You got plenty of company. Maybe this is helpful for anyone who gives hoot.

Definitions of predicate on the Web:

make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
connote: involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
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Sometimes it is inconvenient or impossible to describe a set by listing all of its elements. Another useful way to define a set is by specifying a property that the elements of the set have in common. The notation P(x) is used to denote a sentence or statement P concerning the variable object x. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_(mathematical_logic)
The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject; A statement that may be true or false depending on the values of its variables; An operator or function that returns either true or false; To announce or assert publicly; To state, assert; To suppose, assume; to ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/predicate
A predicate filters a node-set with respect to an axis to produce a new node-set. A predicate occurs in square brackets after the a node test. For example, para selects all of the para children of the context node. Adding the predicate [3]: para[3] selects only the third para element. ...
www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslvocab.html
n. a function that returns a generalized boolean as its first value.
www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo_p.htm
A test which returns True or False. Two different types of predicates exist in repoze.bfg: a view predicate and a route predicate. View predicates are attached to view configuration and route predicates are attached to route configuration.
docs.repoze.org/bfg/1.2/glossary.html
A logical expression which evaluates to TRUE or FALSE, normally to direct the execution path in code.
www.testingstandards.co.uk/living_glossary.htm
The name of the predicate is the name of the structure followed by "?" , eg ' foo? '. The predicate is a procedure of one argument, which returns #t if its argument is a record of the type defined by this structure definition, and #f otherwise.
www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-ref/Structure-Definitions.html
The term predicate is a syntactic notion that refers to the zeroth arguments of a proposition. Predicates denote relations and properties, ie, sets.
www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/PowerLoom/documentation/manual/manual_11.html
A function that returns either a true or false value.
www.pcai.com/web/glossary/pcai_p_s_glossary.html
that which is said about something.
fmmh.ycdsb.ca/teachers/F00027452/F00027453/logic.ppt
The part of the sentence that contains the action (verb). Example: My sister and I walked home after school.
sk2.saugus.k12.ca.us/~sking/la_def.html
Tells what the who or what is doing (verb)
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Avangi · Answer

Thank you, dimsum. I shall work to digest it.

Rgdz, - A.

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