If I were to just summarize the long and difficult sections headed “PARTICIPLE AND GERUND,” “PARTICIPLES,” and “THE GERUND” in The King’s English by H.W. and F.G. Fowler (1906), it ...

He wants to know when to use the gerund (doing) and when to use the infinitive (to do). Sian's 4 tips! 1. After a preposition, we use the gerund.

Meticulous: ever-scrupulous about minute details, very careful, accurate. This definition of the word is one that I thought correct, for it comes from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current ...

A participial phrase consists of a participle plus modifier(s), object(s), and/or complement(s)’. An earlier column discussed gerunds which, basically, are verbs with the ‘ing’ ending.