المرجع الالكتروني للمعلوماتية
المرجع الألكتروني للمعلوماتية

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-ing form  
  
682   04:08 مساءً   date: 2023-09-23
Author : David Crystal
Book or Source : A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics
Page and Part : 245-9


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-ing form

A term used in English GRAMMATICAL description to refer to the FORM of the VERB ending in -ing, e.g. going, smoking. Many such forms can be used without change as NOUNS (e.g. smoking is prohibited), and the purpose of the term is to provide a neutral DESCRIPTIVE label for this feature of English, thus avoiding the use of such traditional notions as ‘gerund’, which were originally devised for Latin grammar. In classical TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR, -ing noun forms were transformationally derived from the related verb forms.