Wikipedia was just a convenient link. If you want to give me your postal address so I can personally mail you photocopies from my old English textbook, feel free to leave it. It’s ok; not many people remember the Gerund is a valid part of the language after they leave high school — just most people do not act like an *** about grammar to other informal posters without checking the rules themselves.

Incorrect.

Wikipedia? Is that where you receive your education? That explains it. LMAO!

“Swearing” is not only the present participle, it is the gerund, or “Action Noun,” form of the verb. Gerunds are verb forms that take the place of nouns in sentences, and they have been part of English for as long as there has been English, and in other languages before that. If your high school seriously never taught you this concept, you could have at least checked wikipedia.

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

Swearing is a verb. Profanity would’ve been the proper choice of word for a “grown up” to use.

So, we’re not very impressed, either.

Again, I appreciate everyone who reads this site, whether they agree or disagree, lets just keep personal attacks out of the comments from here on out.

Thanks.

@Corey: Based your juvenile post, a coloring book is a premiere novel to you so I’m not impressed. And just because you learned some big boy cuss words doesn’t mean they have to be used in every sentence out of your mouth. You see, grown ups know how to use swearing selectively and know that it doesn’t really make us tough.

Now sign off and go to bed before I tell your Mommy you are playing on the ‘puter past your bedtime.

I got your back jeremy