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Yellowstarstruck Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Nouns

Hi! The underlined are both nouns aren't they? Thanks, Fulvio

1. Are you interested in going hunting?

2. Are you interested in going shopping?

  

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They are gerunds, which are like verbal nouns.

— Clive

  • They are gerunds, which are like verbal nouns.
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They are gerunds, which are like verbal nouns.

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Are you interested in going hunting / shopping?


The salient interpretation is that "hunting" and "shopping" are gerund-participle verbs functioning as heads of non-finite clauses.

"Go" is a catenative verb and the clauses "hunting" and "shopping" are its catenative complements.

Noun interpretation can be forced by adjectival premodification, a

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Yes they are

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