21st Century Grammar Handbook



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21st century grammar, transformation, transformation, - - - .pdf;filename*= UTF-8''অনুবাদ চর্চা (প্রথম আলো পত্রিকা থেকে-২৯-০৩-২০২০)-1, 21st century grammar
participle. (See conjugation for the spelling and formation rules of gerunds) It is used to form tenses and in a variety of phrases and clauses, and it can function as a noun or adjective: Painting is relaxing.”
As nouns or adjectives, gerunds can play any of the parts that those words can in a
sentence, including when they are combined into phrases or clauses. The wilting flower, sitting in a vase on the peeling windowsill, represented declining vigor to the writer, who faced the rapid ebbing of his talent but was eyeing many cures for his ills Here the gerund and present participle play many roles (too many fora single sentence Adjective (wilting peeling and declining, noun (ebbing, and verb form (sitting and was eyeing”).
So versatile a form has many uses, and it happily has few issues of agreement to be concerned with. One should, however, pay attention to how the “ing” form functions in a sentence in order to match it with the correct pronoun modifying it or related to it (antecedent). Since the gerund is a noun form, it requires a possessive pronoun to modify it The writer improved his typing Here typing is a gerund and a noun possessed by a male subject. Hence the proper possessive pronoun is “his.” See
modifier.
Get, got, gotten. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms.


Give, gave, given. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past
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