Re: ``Ken and I being on the radio together''

On Jan 29, 6:58 am, Adam Funk <a24...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-01-28, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

He switched to "high school" a couple of messages ago. (That's what
you call your moving your goalposts.)

I clarified earlier that I meant both situations (ESL and high school
English).  (Anyway, you're the expert at moving goalposts and every
other kind of evasion whenever get caught making a mistake.)

Native English speakers won't make an error, because they have already
internalized the difference.  It doesn't need to be taught to them,
because they don't need conscious awareness of it to use -ing
"properly" (unless there's some difference between standard and spoken
English that you're thinking of that I'm unaware of).

He probably wants them to throw a "his ...-ing" into their writing
every so often to show off.

If you have explained nouns and adjectives, you will need to explain
that there are VERB+ing nouns and VERB+ing adjectives, so they can
parse both "Smoking is bad for your health."  and "There's the smoking
gun."

Why do they need to "parse" them?

Do you suppose that the meaning and use of one is opaque to (a) an
English-speaker or (b) an ESL-learner who knows the other?
.

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