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30 Sep 2022, 03:53
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ReedArnoldMPREP GMATNinja KarishmaB EMPOWERgmatVerbal
Can you please help me understand how to differentiate between gerund and ing particle.
To take an example
Recently documented examples of neurogenesis, the production of new brain cells, include the brain growing in mice when placed in a stimulating environment or neurons increasing in canaries that learn new songs.
(A) the brain growing in mice when placed in a stimulating environment or neurons increasing in canaries that
(E) brain growth in mice that are placed in a stimulating environment or an increase in neurons in canaries that
In this for option A, what I learnt is that,
Brain is noun
Growing is particle
For option E,
Brain is adjective
Growth is noun
Doubt
1. Why can't growing in option A be gerund and brain function as noun
2. How to identify that brain is noun is A and adjective in E.
ReedArnoldMPREP GMATNinja KarishmaB EMPOWERgmatVerbal
Can you please help me understand how to differentiate between gerund and ing particle.
To take an example
Recently documented examples of neurogenesis, the production of new brain cells, include the brain growing in mice when placed in a stimulating environment or neurons increasing in canaries that learn new songs.
(A) the brain growing in mice when placed in a stimulating environment or neurons increasing in canaries that
(E) brain growth in mice that are placed in a stimulating environment or an increase in neurons in canaries that
In this for option A, what I learnt is that,
Brain is noun
Growing is particle
For option E,
Brain is adjective
Growth is noun
Doubt
1. Why can't growing in option A be gerund and brain function as noun
2. How to identify that brain is noun is A and adjective in E.
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30 Sep 2022, 05:18
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Rickooreo
Here are some guidelines:
We usually don't place two nouns next to each other because they don't make sense like that. We must give the relation between the two nouns and for that we place words between them.
"Come to my home hill" doesn't make sense.
I must say, "Come to my home, which is on top of a hill."
So there is some relation given between home and hill.
We do have compound nouns but in that case they act as a single unit and have a well defined meaning. e.g. 'car race,' 'hot dog,' 'brain growth' etc. Both words are nouns in this case and what they mean could be related to the individual nouns or may not be (a hot dog is neither hot nor a dog). But they represent a single unit single thing, a single concept. In some cases, the first noun could act as an adjective for the second noun e.g. What kind of a race is it? Is it a car race or an elephant race or a sack race? Similarly what kind of a growth is it? Brain growth or muscle growth or revenue growth etc.
A verb-ing next to a noun modifies the noun and acts as a participle - 'increasing prices' means we are talking about prices (which are increasing), 'running children' means we are talking about children who are running (a kind of children)
A gerund is a verb-ing acting as a noun. This is the noun we are talking about. It doesn't have another noun next to it.
Running children are a hazard to the old people in the park.
The children who are running are hazardous here. Note the use of plural 'are' here for children. Noun is 'children.'
Running of children is a hazard to the old people in the park.
Here, the 'running' is the hazard, not children. Note the use of 'is' here for singular 'running.' Noun is 'running,' a gerund. 'of children' is the prepositional phrase modifying the noun 'running.'
Increasing prices are a sign of ... ('prices' is the noun. 'increasing' is a participle)
The increase in prices is a sign of ... (we are using an actual noun now - increase)
Growing brain implies .. (we are talking about the brain. 'growing is a participle')
Growth in brain implies ... (we are talking about growth, an actual noun)
Brain growth implies ... (we are talking about growth. It is a compound noun)
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