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Is "The Shining" a title with a gerund, or a regular -ing noun? [duplicate]
Does using "the" or "a" in front of a gerund alter it somehow? "A painting," for example, is not a gerund, and if a book were titled "The Painting" it would not ...
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Usage of “Effects” [duplicate]
I came across this sentence:
“This new patch commit can be cherry-picked directly to the main branch to fix the bug before it effects more users.”
I find the usage of “effects” here to be weird. Is ...
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Is the word "bridge" used to indicate measurement of something in this sentence?
I was reading a scientific article about historical archaeology and then suddenly I came across this part in the article;
"Understanding the development of mass marketing and mass consumption as ...
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Verb particle noun or verb noun particle: to leave out [duplicate]
Which sentence is grammatically correct or sounds more native-like?
Politicians tend to discuss their sources of income nontransparently, leaving the discussions surrounding them out.
Politicians ...
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Disyllabic nouns that differ from their verbs only in which syllable is emphasised [closed]
Some English nouns are identical to their verbs (and their adjectives) both in spelling and pronunciation, for example:
"This is fake"; "to fake"; "this is a fake"
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Is it a generalization?
According to Cambridge Dictionary the verb abhor carries a moral connotation (at least), indicating a strong feeling of detesting something on moral grounds:
abhor: to hate a way of behaving or ...
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possesive infinitive verbs as nouns?
I'm looking at a few English sentences, and I've realized that many verbs can be used as nouns in their infinitive form. For example.
I am going on a run
and in the present tense
I am running.
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Is there an English word to define someone who qualifies their knowledge by (family) association?
I know someone who consistently refers to the fact that their aunt/brother-in-law/cousin or someone in his family has the highest level of expertise to validate his comments to have the highest value.
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Is there a non-negative verb and/or noun that means 'talking factually (and at length) about oneself'?
I think the title pretty much sums up my question.
Self-description might be an option, but I think I'm looking for something wider in meaning.
(And it would be nice if we could skip the 'self' and ...
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Hyphens in compound words where the second word is a verb [duplicate]
Do you hyphenate a compound word made from a noun and a verb, such as 'hand knitted', when the compound does not come before a noun? E.g.: 'This jumper is hand knitted.'
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In the sentence "He doesn't like people telling him what to do" why is there a Gerund after people and not an infinitve?
Forgive me if this has already been answered. I've searched similar questions and only saw this The object of "I don't like people telling me what to do"? which doesn't answer my ...
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Is it a verb or a noun?
I'm not sure if this is going to be a fruitful question or not, but what is the word riposte in the following sentence being referenced as, a verb or a noun?
I like your riposte.
Is the sentence ...
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Is the verb usage of "ladle" considered verbing?
She ladled water instead of soup...
In this sentence, is "ladled" considered verbing or was it a regular and real verb before?
I know informal English allows things like: "I'll ...
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Is the word "work" a noun or a verb in "Get something to work"?
We are having some dispute over the sentence below.
I've tried everything under the sun to fix this lock, but I just can't get it to work.
All of us agree on the meaning of the sentence.
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Comparative Adjective vs Noun; cleaner vs cleaner [duplicate]
I am curious if there is any reason that English converged to using similar suffix for both comparative adjective, and for noun. For example, as shown in the title, "cleaner" could mean both ...
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