User:Saviourofthe
| Search user languages | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||
| UTC-6 | This user's time zone is UTC-6. |
Salvadoran, I guess. Ephemeral is beautiful word. I'm this guy: Saviourofthe
Adding Spanish related terms here 'cause I don't like Spanish Wikcionario design. Also find me on RateYourMusic!
If you have doubts about any entry I've added you can contact me and I'll provide evidence of its usage! :)
Why don't I use this blatant impulse to fill the gaps in the internet, i.e. adding all music releases to artists, cover arts, learning about every genre, making a database, or add missing terms to Wiktionary, to study harder and fill up the gaps in my own knowledge instead? Why shouldn't I use this insatiable completeness hyperfixation to hone my own abilities?
- gerund (noun-like) vs. true noun vs. present participle (adjective-like) vs. participial adjective
Any of various non-finite verb forms in various languages. In English, a "gerund" refers to a verb in its -ing form when used in a way that resembles the use of a noun. Despite showing noun-like behavior in the context of the surrounding sentence, gerunds show verbal behavior in the context of their own internal clause: they can take direct objects or be modified by adverbs. In this way, gerunds are distinguished from deverbal nouns ending in -ing, which occur in noun phrases that can take determiners or be modified by adjectives. For example, "manufacturing" is a gerund in the following sentence: "Efficiently manufacturing this device is difficult." It is a verbal noun (not a gerund) in this sentence: "The efficient manufacturing of this device is difficult." In other languages, gerund can refer to a form that often functions as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or the continuous tense.
When a participle functions as a noun, it is called a gerund. A participle may also function as an adjective (that is, a participial adjective), especially in attributive use. It can evolve to become either a true noun or a true adjective, or both, with a shift in meaning, sometimes substantial.
- true noun: "The mapping of the city was a difficult task."
- gerund: "Rapidly mapping the city was my best decision ever."
- present participle / past participle: "I'm mapping the city right now." / "The sky darkened already."
- participial adjective(s): "The mapping old man cries all night in the darkened sky."
- -ed (adjective and not past participle verb if:)
- accepts gradable (very, so, pretty, too) or comparative (more, less than)
- adjective if be in "be X-ed" can be replaced by: become, feel, look, remain, seem, sound, keep.
- refers to the resultant state rather than to a specific event.
- "X-ed N" -> "N that has been X-ed" is impossible. (why it works? because The noun N in the form "X-ed N" functions as a Direct Object, thus if "X-ed" serves as a verb rather than an adjective, "X-ed" should be a transitive sense, not intransitive.) ("fallen tree" cannot be phrased as "A tree that has been fallen", because you can't "fall a tree")
Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines: NN or VBG; JJ or VBG; JJ or VBN
- unccountable: If I can say "vomit fraud is a problem" (not THE or A vomit fraud) it might be uncountable. some (with singular), any (with singular) a lot of, a little, much, less, amount of,
- countable: it can be counted: a, one, two, three, many, fewer, several, some (with plurals, or with singular in the sense: A certain, an unspecified or an unknown; He gave me some item I couldn't recognize), any (with plural or with singular in the 2nd sense: No matter what kind) number of, etc., may preceed the noun. Question: "how many?" makes sence.
- "the" may be used in both cases.
how to quote: RQ:Chaucer Workes
Some obsolete typographic English variations:
- -y -> -ie: shory -> shorie
- add -e: sorrow -> sorrowe
- s -> ſ
- r -> ꝛ
- u -> v
- v -> u
- l -> ll
- w -> vv
Scan mistakes
- ſ (s) -> f, l, t(less common)
- ꝛ (r) -> a, z, 2
- t -> r, c
- e -> c
- rn <-> m
- u -> n, a
- h -> li, n, b
- i -> 1
- k -> s
- l -> i
- r <-> n
- s -> a
- rm <-> nn
- ll -> U
- <old 1500s gothic letters?>
- o -> e
- c -> t
- f -> t
- ct -> u (ligature)
- oo -> o (ligature)
- ee -> e (ligature)
- I -> J, 2, q, A (capital I)
- y -> v, p
- l -> t
ah
[edit]- hola -> {{smallcaps|
Ah
[edit]Certain prepositional structures that end with "to" are followed by the gerund (-ing) rather than the infinitive. e.g., verb(any conj) + to + verb(inf); but if there's something between the first verb and "to" then it might be "-ing": I'm committed to finding her again (here the verb1 is "am" (to be), as "committed" cannot be replaced by a different conjugation: She is commits to finding?). e.g.: commited to, devoted to, confessed to, look forward to, confess to, admit to, devote oneself to, commit oneself to, be used to. In summary, "-ing" if it can be replaced by a noun as it is a gerund; infinitive if not.