A rare structure

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A rare structure

Vernica

A rare structure

I�ve been searching in a lot of corpora constructions like"Paul�s reading covered all the course goals", that is SBJ (genitive sajon) ING noun and the main verb, but is very difficult to find them. Please if you can help me to seek more reliable sources beside mark davies corpora I�d be on your debt forever because is paart of my research project.

Thanks a bunch in advance

Vero

26 Mar 2010

lshorton99

Have you tried the British National Corpus? It �s the one I used for my Applied Linguistics research.

What is the scope of your research?

26 Mar 2010

anitarobi

You might try here (scroll down):

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-gerunds_1.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/infinitive-gerund/exercises?20

You need to look for gerunds as subjects...

26 Mar 2010

Vernica

Wow thank you both Thumbs Up

. Well It�s simply a paper I�m trying to do. The problem with the Brittish corpus is that in the query I�m not able to introduce the genitive saxon on the query syntax, I mean, I cannot write someone* read [vbg] or reading [vbg] without an error mistake.
But, thank a bunch anyway to spend your time with this
Vero

26 Mar 2010