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Tenjing Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Noun+gerund

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Could you please tell us such nouns which can be used before gerunds, please?
  

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tenjing ould you please tell us such nouns which can be used before gerunds, please? There is no list that I know of. There are many such nouns, I think.

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  • tenjing ould you please tell us such nouns which can be used before gerunds, please?
  • There is no list that I know of.
  • There are many such nouns, I think.
  • trouble doing fun doing etc.
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tenjingould you please tell us such nouns which can be used before gerunds, please?
There is no list that I know of. There are many such nouns, I think.

trouble doing
fun doing
etc.
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tenjingCould you please tell us such nouns which can be used before gerunds, please?
It's not so much the noun as the full predicate. In predicates involving spending time, for example, it's the concept of spending time, not the specific noun that indicates the amount of time, that sanctions the use of an -ing construction.

spend [an hour /
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