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Bmojtaba Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

verb or noun?

I found a definition in the dictionary as follow:

calculate:finding out by adding or dividing ....

whats the rule of adding or dividing??? verb or noun???

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noun

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calculate: The process of finding a numerical result by adding, multiplying, subtracting or dividing multiple numbers.

Traditional grammarians call the underlined words in the sentence above present participle verb forms used as nouns. The name of these types of words is a gerund.

Other grammarians would call these words the non-finite ve
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These words are gerunds. Have you learned about gerunds yet?

The noun forms are addition and division.

Clive
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their meanings are important for me...for example 'adding' means like noun or verb???it means 'addition' or 'to add two or more numers together' ???
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CliveThese words are gerunds. Have you learned about gerunds yet?The noun forms are addition and division.Clive
what do u mean ???if there are gerunds their meaning are different from nouns???where can i find a good source for knowing gerunds???
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A gerund is the present participle of a verb (verb+ing) that is used in a sentence as a noun.

Examples:

Running is good exercise. (Running is the subject of the sentence)

These two sentences have the same meaning. One uses gerunds of the verbs "add" and "subtract," the other uses noun forms derived from the verbs. These words are the direct object of the v
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