Please assist me to understand the usage of the following and its part of speech(eg. a verb, an adjective or a noun etc.) This are them:
eveloping, coveting, honing
I cannot work out what part of speech the above words belong to whether it is a noun an adjective etc and when to use them grammatically. It seems it a progressive forms of a verb and and at the same time a noun. Please someone should assist me to know the usage of verbs + ing.
Please provide context for each word. Often words can have different functions depending on the sentence.
Hi, Beees I can only provide the following:
…an enveloping sense of well-being.
Is “enveloping” a noun here. Since is followed by an Article
She has a good honing skill. Is “honing” an adjective here? or What.[/b]
It;s an adjective - it describes the sense. It isn’t followed by an article.
Your 2nd sentence doesn’t make sense.
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It;s an adjective - it describes the sense. It isn’t followed by an article.
Hi. Beees I mean the article comes before the adjective “enveloping”. Besides I am flabbergasted as to why one just add “ing” to a verb to make it an “adjective”.
If a word is followed by an article, then the word comes first and the article comes after.
If a word is preceded by an article, then the article comes first and the word comes after.
It’s quite common for a word to become an adjective by the addition of ‘-ing’:
a loving heart
the laughing cavalier
the running man
a cheating athlete
The ‘ing’ (progressive/continuous) form of a verb functions in various ways. See the illustrations below:
He is a smoking person. (This means he is a smoker > here ‘smoking’ functions as an adjective)
Smoking is injurious to health. (This means to smoke is injurious to health > here ‘smoking’ is a gerund or a verbal noun)
Smoking a cigarette he talked to me. (This means that he was smoking while he was talking to me > here ‘smoking’ is a partciple, a tenseless verb, so to say)
“He is a smoking person” means he is on fire, as far as I am concerned. That form would not be used by native English speakers,
Thank you for the information, Bev. Anyway, I think Ebenezer would have guessed what I meant by that example, and understood the application of the verb.
My guess is that Ebenezer would have thought the sentence was okay as written.