Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
      
      
    AS>>> Whereas we are in english_tutor, I should like to make a small   
    AS>>> correction: "invasion *of* Iraq," because "invade" is a   
    AS>>> transitive verb (it already contains "in") and therefore requires   
    AS>>> a gerund.   
      
    AK>> Sorry, what does require a gerund? Where is a gerund here?   
      
    AS> The verb "invade", being transitive, acting upon a nount and used   
    AS> in a noun phrase, requres the putting of itself into the form of a   
    AS> gerund :-)   
      
   They don't think of a Gerund if there is a noun expressing the similar   
   meaning. So "invade" requires nothing. You require a spell checker however. ;)   
      
    AS>  I therefore view "invasion" in the phrase "invasion of   
    AS> Iraq" as a gerund.   
      
   What about seeing it as a noun? :)   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2017   
      
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