Confronting as an adjective? Oh, it's you.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 6 Jul 2020, 7:51,
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"In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use."
Quote from the Cambridge Dictionary on "confronting"
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/confronting
Once again, you tiresomely attempt to correct my grammar only to discover my knowledge of English and its correct usage is far greater than yours. I'm not sure where you were educated but I'd apply for a refund if I were you. Still, if you keep persisting in the face of such consistent failure you're bound to eventually strike on something that doesn't humiliate you. Unless...
you're not really here for the hunting
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 6 Jul 2020, 14:23,
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see also:
Boring
(bɔːrɪŋ)
Adjective, (from the verb 'to bore')
Someone boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
Example: Prufock was considered boring by his peers, due to annoyingly persistent failures to reclaim loss of face through misguided pedantry, that did little but compound his grammatical inadequacies in their eyes
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 6 Jul 2020, 15:19,
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in next week's remedial class, we show Prufock which verbs have past and present participle forms, and which haven't
we'll also try to teach him what these terms mean. But it appears we've exceeded his cognitive capacity for today, so we'll just let him recharge his batteries. Bye children!
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 7 Jul 2020, 0:40,
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