Jun 10, Review of ‘Far From the Madding Gerund’, by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K Pullum. Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum, Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (Wilsonville, Oregon: William, James & Co., ). Dec 5, Far from the madding gerund. Edward Skidelsky’s review of George Steiner’s Lessons of the Masters contains this sentence: Unfortunately.
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May 7, at 1: I did copyediting for several years at the American Chemical Society, whose style manual prescribes putting only stuff that actually belongs inside the quotes inside the quotes, and there are other scientific and technical style manuals with fromm rules.
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A noun gerynd a noun is a gerund. The humour and passion shared herein are fabulous. Gerunds after verbs, my dear— I prefer to practice what I predicate. Feb 21, Ivan Komarov rated it liked it.
FAR FROM THE MADDING GERUND.
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Furthermore, it fills an important gap: You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. The origin must be the construction “to be far from fulfulling [something]”, which is syntactically normal. Mea culpa, O Marce, mea maxima culpa! Amazon Kindle 0 madsing.
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