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"The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is it all about? What is it for?"
--Kenneth Koch
“El subtítulo ‘Modelo para armar’ podría llevar a creer que las
diferentes partes del relato, separadas por blancos, se proponen como piezas permutables.”
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20 feb 2007
A gerund is not the same thing as a present participle, though the forms happen to be identical in English. A gerund is a noun, not a verb. Don't say "gerund" when you mean present participle!
Thanks for mentioning this Jonathan. This is a pet peeve of mine. Lots of English PhDs in these parts make this mistake, but, y'know, I don't want to correct my professor.
Thanks for mentioning this Jonathan. This is a pet peeve of mine. Lots of English PhDs in these parts make this mistake, but, y'know, I don't want to correct my professor.
ResponderEliminarIt's nice to get peevish about relatively trivial matters once in a while.
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