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PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
Autor: | pat |
E-mail: | não-disponível |
Data: | 19/MAI/2003 7:53 AM |
Assunto: | Re: Looking foward to ...ing? |
Mensagem: | I didn't intend the question to be rhetorical, in fact. I'm not a grammar maven. If you are saying that the terms "present participle" and "gerund" should be replaced by different words, that is fine with me. And no, I don't dispute the fact that an inappropriate grammar system has been veneered to our hybrid tongue. It is only since studying Portuguese that I have come to put much analytical thought toward the grammar of English, so I am still largely unaware of the full extent of it's mis-application. |