MissMillie
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Thu Oct-20-05 10:35 AM
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In the (partial) sentence below:
"... a mental tapestry of changing intentions for harmonizing and focusing our efforts as the basis for realizing some aim or purpose in an unfolding and often unforeseen world of many bewildering events and many contending interests."
are the words "unfolding," "bewildering" and "contending" considered to be gerunds?
I thought a gerund was a word that was used as a noun. These appear to be adjectives.
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Thu Oct-20-05 10:38 AM
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I also think that's a horrid sentence. But that's just me.
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Thu Oct-20-05 10:38 AM
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Deep13
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Thu Oct-20-05 10:42 AM
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3. They are verbals, verbs used as adjectives. |
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Edited on Thu Oct-20-05 10:46 AM by Deep13
As my 8th grade English teacher said, "Verbal rhymes with gerbil, but has nothing to do with it."
A gerund is a verb used as a noun.
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Felix Mala
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Thu Oct-20-05 11:54 AM
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4. Don't know where this sentence is going, but it should be a landfill. |
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"...in an unfolding and often unforeseen world..."
What "unforeseen worlds" is the writer referring to? Something in the Anteres system?
Try: "...in a world of unfolding and unforeseen circumstances..." And get to 'period' ASAP.
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:20 PM
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5. Is this from the Harriet Miers questionnaire? :op |
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It sounds a lot like the excerpts from her writings that David Brooks published...
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:23 PM
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6. they're adjectives, and that sentence needs a spanking |
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Thu Oct-20-05 12:28 PM
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7. Is this an entry in the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest? |
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It certainly sounds like it. Just the fragment has given me a headache. :silly:
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