From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 13:16:04 MDT
> >St. Google writes,
> >
> >"Every gerund, without exception, ends in -ing. Gerunds are not,
> >however, all that easy to pick out. The problem is that all
> >present participles also end in -ing....
> >
> Steve Davies wrote: ...there's the gerundive which also ends in "ing"
> but is a verbal adjective ie it qualifies a noun or pronoun. eg "the
> thinking man" - "thinking" qualifies the noun "man". Steve Davies
So a verb with 'ing' can be nounized, then adjectived afterwards
by placing it before a nonverbed noun. Or would the term, instead
of 'nounized', be 'nouned' meaning gerundizing a nonverbized noun?
Calvin has termed the practice of torturing nouns thus as verbing, with
his quote to Hobbes "Verbing weirds language."
Who would have thought, languaging could be so much fun? spike
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