[Grammar] Surfing is a popular sport in the summer.

[Tone dog]

Given the sentence,

"Surfing is a popular sport in the summer."

Is the following correct?

"Surfing" is a gerund modified by the adverbial prepositional phrase "in the summer"

Is there anything wrong with writing the sentence as follows,

"In the summer, surfing's a popular sport."

"Surfing, in the summer, is a popular sport."

 

[MikeNewYork]

Given the sentence,

"Surfing is a popular sport in the summer."

Is the following correct?

"Surfing" is a gerund modified by the adverbial prepositional phrase "in the summer" :tick:

Is there anything wrong with writing the sentence as follows,

"In the summer, surfing's a popular sport."

"Surfing, in the summer, is a popular sport."

The last two sentences are grammatical, but the third is a bit clumsy.

 

[Raymott]

"Surfing is a popular summer sport."

 

[Tone dog]

This is condensing the adverbial phrase into an adjective?

 

[5jj]

Not necessarily. Raymott has simply produced a natural English sentence. There is no reason to think he has 'condensed' anything.

 

[Tone dog]

Yes, I now see how it was condensed and also noticed the shift away from a verb based action sentence to a passive noun based sentence.

 

[Raymott]

Yes, I now see how it was condensed and also noticed the shift away from a verb based action sentence to a passive noun based sentence.

No, really, I don't think I can take credit for all that!