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TeacherJapan Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Is this gerund?

Is the underlined part gerund?

The mosquito finds their victims and stabs all six stylets into your skin. All this happens so quickly that you may not have suspected anything happening.

  

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teacherJapan Is the underlined part gerund? a gerund Yes. The possessive would be proper, "anything's happening", because it is the happening you may not have expected, not anything.

  • teacherJapan Is the underlined part gerund?
  • a gerund Yes.
  • The possessive would be proper, "anything's happening", because it is the happening you may not have expected, not anything.
  • These two sentences are a mess, by the way.
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teacherJapanIs the underlined part gerund?

a gerund

Yes. The possessive would be proper, "anything's happening", because it is the happening you may not have expected, not anything. These two sentences are a mess, by the way.

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