I like gerund
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avreliaI have a question for my friends’ list and the passers-by.
How did you feel when you first discovered (was taught about) the existence of gerund?
Today we studied verbal phrases, gerunds, participles, and infinitives in my grammar class. Two thirds of the class are people for whom English is the native language. Only I and two Chinese girls were rather nonchalant about the whole gerund thing. Confusion, puzzlement, and some kind of torpor ruled the others. But I remember the first time I found out about gerunds: I was fifteen, and I was indignant about their existence. They didn’t fit into my view of the languages, and I had enough trouble to reconcile with tenses to be bothered by gerund.
Eventually I got used to them, and now I like gerunds very much.
What about you?
How did you feel when you first discovered (was taught about) the existence of gerund?
Today we studied verbal phrases, gerunds, participles, and infinitives in my grammar class. Two thirds of the class are people for whom English is the native language. Only I and two Chinese girls were rather nonchalant about the whole gerund thing. Confusion, puzzlement, and some kind of torpor ruled the others. But I remember the first time I found out about gerunds: I was fifteen, and I was indignant about their existence. They didn’t fit into my view of the languages, and I had enough trouble to reconcile with tenses to be bothered by gerund.
Eventually I got used to them, and now I like gerunds very much.
What about you?
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Date: 2004-11-05 06:07 pm (UTC)Hee!
I think I use them too, by now, but when I started to learn about them, they were just an abstract construction to me, completely alien. ;-)