F*** Wayland
Ooh… verbals are another fun one.
Basically, yes. A gerund IS a noun. A participle is an adjective when used as such. An infinitive is… whatever it feels like being.
But anyway, to get to the point…
I won’t claim that “my/his/her…” are purely adjectives, but I will make the claim that they’re as much adjectives as they are anything else.
They’re sometimes called that, but they’re not actually nouns either. You can’t use them as nouns. So calling them pronouns is a bit of a misnomer and most modern textbooks don’t call them that for that reason, especially in EFL. They’re their own special class of word, but they follow more adjective rules than noun rules, so you’ll see them called all kinds of things. Possessive pronouns, possessive adjectives, possessive determiners… But all of those names for them have problems. Possessive pronouns is also problematic because they get confused with the ACTUAL pronoun set, which is mine, yours, his, hers, ours, and theirs, which DO function as nouns.
It is as a possessive adjective.
As in “her car” or “her apple”. It’s not a TRUE adjective, so some modern textbooks call them determiners instead, but functionally this class of possessives is closer to adjectives than nouns.
This is absolutely not the case, and has historically never BEEN the case.
Think of your computer like an old CD player. If you own the player and the CDs you can play them. Forever. NOBODY else gets a say. You can’t be stopped. That’s what ownership MEANS. It means YOURS. Not right now - not a license - not until you don’t get a security update - not “as long as you don’t try to play CDs we don’t like on it”… it means until either you or it physically DIE.
This is how EVERY SINGLE THING you own should be, and every single instance where that is NOT the case is one where something has been stolen from you - every bit as much as if I walked into your house, picked it up, and walked out with it. If my taking something from your house and walking out pisses you off, so should this. I have no idea how to make “I have paid money for something to then have it taken away from me” more anger inducing than it should already be.
“It’s very simple… I want control over my life and a fresh hope for humanity, but if you suggest I tolerate even the TINIEST quantum of inconvenience in the process I will complain and mock until I feel better for betraying all my professed values. What, pay people for improving the thing someone already generously built for free? Why should I do that?”
“her” works for both!
Yes, but the same thing happened in the campaign and he and Trump still went on to win the election.
These “low turnout” events are nice, hilarious distractions from a country that STILL turned over the reins of power to these idiots.
The rally turnout doesn’t matter. The schadenfreude doesn’t matter.
What matters is when people show up to vote, and these empty arenas, like streets full of demonstrators after the fact, ultimately say WAY less about the US as a people than the victors of elections.
Fair is fair… North Korea was sending balloons filled with garbage over the border for a while - might be time to send some back.
“You know how to REALLY get views? Go to NORTH Korea!”
1990s problems require 1990s solutions.
He’s saying you can take down 100 data centers…
Or one CEO.
Not that I’D ever advocate or cheer for violence, no sir.
The difference between polymath and psychopath is about 200 years of scientific discovery that you willfully ignore in favor of screwing around with random crap.
Lithium recycling has never been the problem. The problem is most EVs are new, and people aren’t buying enough of them, so there isn’t enough capacity of old batteries in the system yet for business to profit from building the plants to do the recycling. And now some stupid orange asshole has been sabotaging production, so we’re not going to hit that tipping point for decades.
But IQ DOES have a long term effect on fluoridation!
Dead from cancer because you think you know better than the experts?
Spoken like someone who doesn’t understand the fighting is PART of the joy.
I love shorts.
They’re comfy and easy to wear.