Thanks Bill. I've also been thinking a passive phrase would be better if possible (verb acting on noun). Please feel free to make changes directly if you have any ideas.
-----Original Message----- From: bill lam <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:51 To: JChat <[email protected]> Subject: [Jchat] verb tense in english grammar In the example, Verbs are "doing words" such as walking in the sentence "The cat is walking.". that 'is walking' (two words together) is one type of verb tense in English grammar, but I see the word 'walking' (alone without 'is') can also be classified as noun or adjective, because it denote a state of action or being, meaning 'the cat is in a state of walking' the cat is fat. NB. adjective the cat is a pet. NB. noun In these two sentence, the word 'is' is the (only) verb that relating the word (fat, pet) following it reflexively to the subject. -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
