In my professional opinion...

[Melonfish]

All mushrooms are edible, but some only once.

There are old mushroom hunters, there are bold mushroom hunters.
There are no old, bold mushroom hunters...

Nettles make great tea and are good in salads you can even make great cordage (string) from them.

in the autumn you can make coffee out of goose grass (cleavers) seeds.

Never shout at someone, always explain your point of view firmly, shouting ends a conversation and starts an argument faster than you'd expect.

If a berry looks tasty its most likely poisonous.

The Yew tree is widely known to be toxic, the arils that surround the seeds however are delicious and taste slightly like strawberry. the seeds must NOT be eaten.

Squirrels bark.

in the spring you can get a refreshing drink from a birch tree. (tapping for sap)

i have many more.

 

[ASC1951]

That makes no sense. Can you give us a an example?

In "I like swimming", swimming is a gerund (basically a verb form used as a noun), and there is no need for a possessive.

There isn't in that case, no, because the gerund isn't qualified in any way - it's just the object of the verb 'like'. If you add an adjectival modifier, for instance, it's much clearer - "Fred's swimming is coming on well", not 'Fred swimming...'.

The difficulty with getting the gerund grammatically correct (not that it matters) is that in English it is the same form as the present participle. So "Look at Fred swimming" is correct in that construction.

 

[matthat]

Never whistle on a theatre stage!!! You could end up with a piece of scenery on your head!

 

[Black Sheep]

Look when putting your motorbike's side stand down, the bit your foot has found might be the gear lever.

don't worry, didn't drop it.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Never eat yellow snow!

 

[Alan Frame]

Every other road user apart from me is an idiot and is likely to prove it by doing something stupid/illegal or dangerous.

 

[Fnaar]

There isn't in that case, no, because the gerund isn't qualified in any way - it's just the object of the verb 'like'. If you add an adjectival modifier, for instance, it's much clearer - "Fred's swimming is coming on well", not 'Fred swimming...'.

The difficulty with getting the gerund grammatically correct (not that it matters) is that in English it is the same form as the present participle. So "Look at Fred swimming" is correct in that construction.

But the one that grammar-complainers complain about is (e.g.) My fries doesn't like my being late" and there is feck all wrong with "me being late".

 

[ASC1951]

But the one that grammar-complainers complain about is (e.g.) My fries doesn't like my being late" and there is feck all wrong with "me being late".

They do indeed complain. "My being late" is strictly correct, "me being late" isn't, but I see both as being perfectly acceptable in almost all contexts and certainly in ordinary speech.
What the grammar Nazis forget is that language is about communication; and if it isn't confusing it doesn't really matter.

 

[Fnaar]

They do indeed complain. "My being late" is strictly correct, "me being late" isn't, but I see both as being perfectly acceptable in almost all contexts and certainly in ordinary speech.
What the grammar Nazis forget is that language is about communication; and if it isn't confusing it doesn't really matter.

I agree with you

 

[ComedyPilot]

I witH, you agrEe bOth/

 

[TheDoctor]

Rocket science is actually very simple. It's rocket engineering that's difficult.
It's not rocket salad, you know.

 

[Archie_tect]

It's not falling off a ladder that hurts, it's the sudden stop at the bottom.

 

[EltonFrog]

It's not falling off a ladder that hurts, it's the sudden stop at the bottom.

To damn feckin right it does! And after eight weeks I've still got a bloody bruise.

 

[pplpilot]

Flying an aircraft is easy, pull the stick back the houses get smaller, push it forwards the houses get bigger.

 

[TVC]

Nothing in the world is difficult to achieve. Explaining it to the wife afterwards, that's the difficult bit.