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Re: Help with verbal as subject
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Paul Pellikka <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:06:00 -0500
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"Learning and assimilating new information" is neither a noun phrase nor a noun subject, as Sophie suggested. It is a gerund phrase, which always functions nominally, in this case as subject. The agreement needs to be worked out on those structural grounds.

Paul Pellikka
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