deep.amangmat wrote:If my understanding is correct, then why is this list in OG12#64 correct? All are nouns, but the forms are different and simple gerund is made parallel to action noun
i think the best way to resolve this discrepancy is to note that "eating" and "smoking" may also be regarded as action nouns -- because there are no dedicated noun forms for these actions.
i.e., *IF* there were actual action nouns for these words -- such as "eatage" or "smokation" -- then this construction would be unacceptable. however, because there are no such words, "eating" and "smoking" may be regarded as
either gerunds or "action nouns".
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on the other hand, the statement that "the verbING" should basically never be parallel to just "verbING" seems pretty solid to me.
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