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Latin can lay down skills that last a lifetime

The Observer 08 Jan 2025
Oxford ... They claimed that Latin grammar made aspects of English and French studies much clearer and one student surprised his parents by suddenly spotting a gerundive in a London street, Bibendum. They found infinite connections in their lives ... Share ... .
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Simbang Gabi

The Manila Times 23 Dec 2024
... the way, we use the gerund form of the verb whenever we say the phrasal verb, "looking forward to" or "look forward to," because "to," in this case, functions as a preposition and not an infinitive.
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The importance of grammar-perfect English

The Manila Times 04 Apr 2024
all elements in a list — whether nouns, verbs, infinitives, gerunds, and participles — should take the same grammatical form.
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A Christmasing-sing dream: Crooning a carol sans log-lust or slaughter | MARK HUGHES COBB

Tuscaloosanews.com 20 Dec 2023
Warning. About to plant earworms. So, this is Christmas .... OK, one more. It's coming on Christmas .... Insert record scratch ... Given Germanic origins of the ritual burning of woodstuffs, I'm gonna guess the missing swain's name is Gerund Infinitive ... Title.
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GRAMMAR DOG: Generally speaking, revising, sentence combining work

Tahlequah Daily Press 29 Aug 2023
These days English teachers who are combining three concepts are bringing grammar to the writing table ... Examples. “Zelda’s boyfriend came in. *He is macho ... *The boat was now alongside ... gerunds, infinitives, participles, and absolutes ... Some examples. ... .
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On Language: My proposed scale of usage fussiness

Traverse City Record-Eagle 27 Aug 2023
One such rule demands a possessive form before a gerund ... A “gerund” is a present participle moonlighting as a noun instead of an element in a verb phrase. It is created by the addition of an “ing” to the infinitive of a verb.
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GRAMMAR DOG: Those Dang-ling Modifiers and how to undang them

Tahlequah Daily Press 01 Aug 2023
Recently Grammar Dog received an urgent message from the editor ... I’ll write a column about it.” ... participle, gerund, infinitive, adjective, preposition, reduced adverb clause ... ... The implied subject is “reading a sentence.” This gerund can modify “it.” ... .
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Education Frontlines Here’s to real computer education

The Pratt Tribune 27 Mar 2023
By John Richard Schrock ... And the major exam that they take at the end of high school that determines if and where they go to college includes sentence diagramming (direct and indirect objects, modifiers, prepositions, gerunds, infinitives, etc.) ... At.
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Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 5

The Manila Times 01 Feb 2023
We should aim for parallel patterns when using adjectives and adverbs in our sentences, seeking structural balance for them in much the same way as we do for noun forms, verb forms, infinitives, and gerunds. Unparallel construction ... Next week, Feb ... ....
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Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 4

The Manila Times 25 Jan 2023
The elements should all be noun forms, verb forms, infinitive phrases, gerund phrases, or participial phrases, whichever is most appropriate ... Unparallel (gerund/infinitive) ... Unpa¬rallel (infinitive/gerund) ... Unparallel (gerund/infinitive).
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Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 3

The Manila Times 18 Jan 2023
A parallel sentence sticks to the same pattern all throughout—all noun forms, all gerund forms, all infinitive forms, or all verb forms as the case may be ... isn't a noun clause but an infinitive phrase.
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Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 2

The Manila Times 11 Jan 2023
... are in parallel because both are gerunds ("-ing" noun forms), the third, "to play computer games," ruins the parallelism because it's an infinitive which is a dissimilar form ("to" + the verb stem).
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Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 1

The Manila Times 04 Jan 2023
This applies to all the parts of speech in English, from articles and prepositions to nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs as well as to the verbals — the infinitives, gerunds, and participles ... "You can take your vacation in New York, or in Paris.".
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Ernie's grammar column: How to energize your sentences

Hendersonville Times-News 18 Sep 2022
through verbals that consist of gerunds, participles, and infinitives ... “Seeing (a gerund acting as a noun) is believing.” ... GERUNDS ... “The sport involved riding.” (The gerund ”riding” is the direct object of “sport.”). Gerunds often look like participles.

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