Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>> Whereas we are in english_tutor, I should like to make   
   AS>> a small correction: "invasion *of* Iraq," because   
   AS>> "invade" is a transitive verb (it already contains   
   AS>> "in") and therefore requires a gerund.   
      
   AK> Sorry, what does require a gerund? Where is a gerund   
   AK> here?   
      
   The verb "invade", being transitive, acting upon a nount and   
   used in a noun phrase, requres the putting of itself into   
   the form of a gerund :-) I therefore view "invasion" in the   
   phrase "invasion of Iraq" as a gerund.   
      
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