Alexander Korchagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>> I therefore view "invasion" in the phrase "invasion of   
   AS>> Iraq" as a gerund.   
   AK> What about seeing it as a noun? :)   
      
   And what grammar school allows nouns to have direct objects?   
      
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