Timeline for Gerund & participle: "She stormed out, 'slamming' the door so hard that the mirror fell off the wall"
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| Mar 7, 2013 at 10:25 | history | edited | avpaderno |
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| Feb 12, 2013 at 0:52 | history | edited | hippietrail |
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| Feb 11, 2013 at 14:04 | comment | added | avpaderno | As side note, what in Italian is called gerundio, it is not called gerund in English. A gerund is a form derived from a verb that functions as a noun; that definition matches what in Italian is defined as participio ("forma nominale del verbo, usata generalmente con valore di aggettivo o di sostantivo"). | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 21:54 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=114 by developer User.Id=2 | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 20:33 | comment | added | user114 | @tchrist, may be; but don't forget Non sum propheta et non sum filius prophetae. | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 20:29 | comment | added | tchrist | Untrue! Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 20:28 | comment | added | user114 | Yes @tchrist, but a rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true. | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 19:57 | comment | added | tchrist | Why does it matter what label you affix to an -ing word? It does its job perfectly well no matter how sweet smelleth the rose by any other name. | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 19:32 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 18:58 | history | asked | user114 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |