RE: Why Gerunds?

Subject: RE: Why Gerunds?
From: "Keith Hansen" <KRH -at- weiland-wfg -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:06:40 -0500


Daniel wrote:

>>In the sentence you give, "To create a document" works as an
introductory infinitive phrase. And infinitives are verbals just like
gerunds, so we're still talking oranges and oranges, which is good.<<

See following URL for a good discussion of gerunds and infinitives:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_verbals.html#infinitive
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Keith
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