atw: Re: New Gerund ...

  • From: Neil Maloney <maloneyn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:20:08 +1000

Oops! You're absolutely right, Daryl. Would everyone please electronically scrub "a gerund" and replace it with "an enallage". Thanks! 


Cheers,
Neil.


On 26/08/2010 10:57 PM, Daryl Colquhoun wrote:

This is the first time I have seen "government" used as a gerund ...
"...MPs who will decide who *governments* in a hung parliament."


It's not being used as a gerund. It's a verb.


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