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looking to get a booking
sweating to be a starring
casting calling inkling-
viewing critic jarring
acting like a daring
winning hero spinning
feeling like a herring-
dreading the beginning
faming through the flaming
paparazzi's snapping
marketing is marketing
so the viewing view with clapping
not as hard as capping
lining lines with inging
staining lovely staying bubbly
leaving ugly ringing
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Ha! You've got gerunds under your skin, haven't you? Painful. I shall leave it to Leanne or Todd to sort out the participles and the gerunds, but with a simple code, like this:
P = participle
I = inappropriate
G = Gerund
Very droll!
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It's all right, that ringing will come off with a dose of bleach.
(Can you put "marketing is marketing"? That's the only line that bugs me...)
I'm not going to sort anything out, I like it just the way it is -- poetry should be fun, dammit! Although if I didn't know better, I'd think you were taking the piss...
It could be worse
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abu nuwas,
I do have them under my skin. Every time I write I wind up in the past tense and what doesn't qualify as a gerund still looks gerungy. So I figured I would just get it out of my system.
Leanne,
I don't know exactly what 'taking the piss' means, but I have a feeling you're right.
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A fun read. I enjoyed it. (I especially liked the title)
Can a steal a moment to ask for help in identifying 'gerunds' ....my Webster's Dictionary isn't a big help
"a verbal noun used in all but the nominative case" I am now regretting sitting in my English grammar lessons drawing pictures of Robert Horton instead of listening....I think none of these 'ing' words are gerunds, but I could be wrong. I don't know my participle from my elbow.
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(10-29-2011, 05:24 PM)grannyjill Wrote: A fun read. I enjoyed it. (I especially liked the title)
Can a steal a moment to ask for help in identifying 'gerunds' ....my Webster's Dictionary isn't a big help
"a verbal noun used in all but the nominative case" I am now regretting sitting in my English grammar lessons drawing pictures of Robert Horton instead of listening....I think none of these 'ing' words are gerunds, but I could be wrong. I don't know my participle from my elbow.
My 'Nuttall's Stanard Dictionary of the English Language' of 1929, gives 'a participial noun expressing the action of the verb'. What it means is: forget all the -ing words which are (a) really just a part of a verb eg, in the present tense we may say 'I fuck' or 'I am fucking' (b) words which are really behaving like adjectives eg 'What a fucking cheek' . You are left with a rather select band of -ing words, which are part verb, and part noun, thus 'He was OK but his fucking was a bit of a let down, and his fucking my best mate was bang out of order'. I think what your Webster's is trying to get at, is to exclude (correctly) 'Brilliant fucking is what I most like', where 'fucking is plainly acting purely as a noun, so that it could not have an object, as a true gerund can 'His fucking me was the high point of my life' (how many times have I heard that?), where it is qualified by 'his', yet still has an object 'me'. Clear as mud? Well, that's fuckingerund for you.....
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Hi Jill,
For more info about gerunds with examples, check out this thread (see what you miss when you stay away too long?
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Gerunds
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Abu, having read your explanation I now feel that I must go and lie down in a dark room to recover. I reckon I am going to need a couple of examples on a small piece of card, and every time a discussion about gerunds takes place I can surreptitiously sneak a look. (Have I just split an infinitive?)
Thanks Mark, I am off to take a look and see if I can garner my examples there.
Well, I've been and read and now I'm back - 'noun-verbs' is a good thing to put on my card, and then I will create some sentences to remind me of what that means.
Mind you, the reality is that in the circles in which I move, pigs would fly sooner than the word ever being used. (But, I like to learn new things, it keeps the old brain working)
