a: Gerund ~
b: person whose father is a verb and
What: "I could say the Gerund is like a person whose father is a verb and mother is a noun. It takes after Dad in looks (you can clearly see a verb as its core) and after Mom in behaviour - it functions the same way nouns do, with a few exceptions.
I don't understand why you feel it so different in these sentences. We could change the gerunds for nouns:
He is used to living alone."
Useful?
Writer: Lucretia
LCC:
Where:
http://www.englishpage.net/showthread.php?11058-Shouldn%E2%80%99t-gerund-represent-an-entity-of-sort
Date: Oct 9 2013 3:12 PM
# 3899 Critique Analogy