LING 2P10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Causative, Participle, Reduced Relative Clause
15 Jan 2016
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A gerund is a verbal that functions as a noun; it occupies some of the same sentence that a noun does: subject, object, object of preposition, and. Verbals: include gerunds, participles, infinitives; they are derived from verbs but don"t inflect for person and tense, nor combine with an auxiliary verb to form verb phrases. Gerund phase: consists of a verbal, modifiers, objects, and/or complements positions in a complement. Gerunds are often used negatively; made negative using not" before the verbal. Since gerunds function as nouns, they can take possessive pronouns or be preceded by nouns with the possessive s inflection. Consists of a participle, either ing or ed, modifiers, complements, objects. Participial phrase: running too quickly, the child fell. Participial phrases function primarily as adjectives; its often a reduced relative clause; can also function as adverbs. An ing participle is functioning as a noun and part of a gerund phrase if it is: complement.
