typically in progressive tenses. In contrast, gerunds function as nouns. They can take on various roles in a sentence, such as being subjects, direct or indirect objects, or objects of prepositions. While gerunds and infinitives share similarities, they aren’t always interchangeable and have disti...
9.The system of claim 1 wherein the phrase includes more than one word, wherein one syllable conjunctions, one syllable articles, one syllable prepositions, one syllable pronouns, one syllable contractions, and one syllable interjections in the phrase are unstressed in the stress pattern. ...