[carrie721]

Originally Posted by amber

uh...I still don't quite see it. I kinda do, I guess. But cake, worms, and calculators are different than loving. Loving is already a verb. I don't really see loving as anything but an action word. Is it the way it is being used that makes it different? To me she is talking about loving, as in, you know, loving. Sex. Like the action of making love.

I have to admit, not only has it been a long time since I addressed any of these rules (sixth grade), but even then I didn't have to really address them, as I just always knew how the sentence should be and what not. I mean, I'm not going to remember extra **** if I'm already getting an 'A'.

right. it is a verb, but it's functioning in the sentence as a noun. trufakt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerund