StrangerComeKnocking | Date: Thursday, 14 Feb 2013, 4:25 PM | Message # 1 |
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| "Your cooking was delicious!"
"Last night's reading was hard!"
Is cooking/reading a verb-turned-into-a-noun or what? And how would one reproduce this here?
"Everybody knows that everybody dies." -River Song
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LicoricePlease | Date: Sunday, 03 Mar 2013, 7:02 AM | Message # 2 |
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| The noun version of a verb is called a gerund. In English, it's usually +-ing or +-ation. Both examples you used are gerunds, but we haven't discussed how to make a gerund. (Sometimes a gerund was actually a noun that predated the verb, but "playing" is different from "play", as anyone can tell you.)
We'll just have to think of an afx.
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