Re: USAGE: "Laughingly":What part of speech is it?
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 4, 1998, 1:38 |
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Carlos Thompson wrote:
> Is not the gerund an adverb. At least in both the English I know and in
> Spanish the gerund acts as an adverb. The present or active participe, by
> other way, is an adjective.
No. Both are adjectives: Past Particple: the fallen wall; Present
Participle: the screaming woman. When you add an -ly to it, Carlos, it
becomes an adverb.
In English there is no morfological difference
> between the active participe and the gerund (the -ing form).
>
> If gerund is an adverb, then wakingly is the adverbation of an adverb.
No... an adverb made of an adjective!
Sally
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