Thanks - I never studied English grammar in a technical sense, so I am at a
disadvantage.
Having studied other languages that way, I think I can spot a gerund at the
beginning of a sentence. But I am not sure that I could distinguish one from
a participle (they come in twelves, don't they?) ;-)
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Walt Wayman
Sent: 07 June 2005 20:59
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology ! [OT]
Oops! Looks like I forgot to answer (or dodged) the question.
"Opportunities" is the subject of the sentence. "There seems to be" is a
prepositional phrase, and "employment" is an adjective modifying
"opportunitites."
I could be wrong. I haven't diagrammed a sentence in x+y years. I don't
think I even remember what a gerund is anymore. I had a couple of gerbils
once, though, but that's not the same.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
> Sigh! I did the unpardonable: I went back and revised part of a
> sentence without reading it after I revised it. Originally, it was
> "There seems to be employment opportunity for..." and then I changed
> it to what you see without renegotiating the necessary agreement between
subject and verb.
>
> I'm a passable, fair to middlin' writer, but I'm a really miserable
proofreader.
> As the old Southern commedian Brother Dave Gardner used to say, "I may
> not be grammatical, but, by God, I'm communicable."
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Walt, a question for you. You wrote "There seems to be employment
> > opportunities" - what is the subject of the verb, and is it (the
> > subject) singular or plural?
> >
> > Truly, it's a question, despite that it may appear to be baited (it
isn't).
> >
> > --
> > Piers
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Walt Wayman
> > Sent: 07 June 2005 20:04
> > To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology !
> >
> > Oh, I understand. At least a couple of times a day I have to resist
> > the urge to e-mail the Republican Network (a.k.a Fox) or CNN about
> > some of the atrocious mistakes in their annoying "crawlers" across
> > the bottom of the screen. There seems to be employment
> > opportunities for high-school dropouts at both networks. Of course, the
folks who watch Fox probably don't notice.
> >
> > See the smiley! :-) "Smiley" rhymes with "O'Reilly." Oh, really?
> > Factor that in.
> >
> > Walt
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