A few weeks ago, I mentioned here a CNN article “about the president making an unannounced stop.” Two readers emailed with the same question. Here’s Bill in Niskayuna, N.Y.: “I was taught that a noun ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Hebrew verbal gerund is a construction used mainly as a temporal adverb. Its surface form consists of the following sequence of elements ...

If you're comfortable using the word "gerund" in regular conversation, if you're quite sure an aphorism isn't a leaf-eating bug, or if the phrase "dangling participle" isn't a euphemism to you, you ...