GalahOnTheBay said..

Geralds are so confusing!

www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/participles-and-gerunds

This puts a whole new spin on things.

Planing can therefore be a present participle, gerund and adjective.

I am learning more from here than all my years of Catholic school education.

Planing is the best thing about windy days (gerund, acting like a noun)

Gary was planing through his gybes beautifully (present participle)

Mary wanted to get out in planing conditions (adjective).

Yes Belly, seabreeze may attract a mish-mash of non-judgemental under-educated illiterate people, but who said there was nothing valuable to learn here?

Just imagine, next time the other half has a go at you for wasting time on seabreeze again..."No darling, I'm actually brushing (present participle) up on my grammar".

Clarence

Bristol said..

Good grief!!!

Steady Charlie Brown, the wind will blow again and you will get your planing fix

Ug Ug Err Grunt Grunt me go wind grunt err ug ug now grunt

Don't realy undastand y people are so up in arms about a bit of speling and gramma, in most cases, unless ur a complete idiot u can still comprehend what the person ment to say. Not everyone is good at speling or punctuation just like some people don't excel at maths or science. I'm alright at spelling and gramma most of the time but sometimz when I'm tired or in a rush I just can't be bothered being overly pedantic about things, sometimes (shock, horror) I just make mistakes or genuinely don't know were to wak the comma or semi colon. If that offends half the world I wood kindly suggest that half of the world get over it and find better things to concern itself with and pick apart. Who realy cares and does it realy matta at the end of the day?

^^ Yes it's a slippery slope that leads to inevitable moral decline and debasement. Along the way you will lose all hope, all dignity, all self respect until you

emerge as coprophagous bacterium living in **** with only the vaguest memory of spelling or even language. Your entire mental oeuvre will be reduced to

rude imperatives to eat **** and divide and you wont have to spell anything. Is that what you really want?

Ok ,I'm old an stuff and I appreciate old school grammer , but I also undersand new age of getting the jist across. It's ok to be anal but the new generation have to understand tech that I don't have time for.Remember when the time tables were important ?

Not much wind at the moment?

Imax1 said..
Ok ,I'm old an stuff and I appreciate old school grammer , but I also undersand new age of getting the jist across. It's ok to be anal but the new generation have to understand tech that I don't have time for.Remember when the time tables were important ?

Time tables still are important. 'Specially if you have a connection to catch.