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Verbal adjectives (adverbs made from verbs) are called gerunds in some grammar and reference books. They are used in subordinate clauses. Like other adverbs, verbal adverbs do not have gender and they do not change their form. There are two types of verbal adverbs:

1. Imperfective/continuous verbal adverbs indicate an action that occurred (occurs, will occur) at the same time as the action in the main clause. The tense of the verb in the main clause is very important.
Giveaway sign: -я You have already seen this in the phrase Честно говоря, to be honest.

Formation: Imperfective/continuous verbal adverbs come from present-tense verbs (они-form):
приветству + ют --> приветству + я --> приветствуя

Образцы: Приветствуя хозяйку, гость благодарит её за приглашение.
While greeting/As he greets the hostess, the guest thanks her for the invitation.

Приветствуя хозяйку, гость благодарил её за приглашение.
While greeting/As he greeted the hostess, the guest thanked her for the invitation.


2. Perfective/simple verbal adjectives indicate an action that occurred (occurs, will occur) before the action in the main clause. The tense of the verb in the main clause is very important.
Giveaway sign: -в (soemtimes -вши or -вшись) or -я at the end of a perfective/simple verb.

Formation is based on past tense:
узна -л --> узна +в --> узнав
опроси -л --> опроси +в --> опросив
встрети -лся --> встрети +вшись --> встретившись

For all -ёл use the future tense они: ут --> я
вош -ёл --> войд +ут --> войдя

Образцы: Гость, войдя в комнату, подходит к хозяйке.
A guest, after entering the room, walks up to the hostess.

Поприветствовав хозяйку, гость благодарит её за приглашение.
Having greeted/After greeting the hostess, the guest thanks her for the invitation.

Поприветствовав хозяйку, гость поблагодарил её за приглашение.
Having greeted/After greeting the hostess, the guest thanked her for the invitation.


And the plague possibly turns into pneumonia. FUN. Woke up this morning to the boy staggering around wheezing. Non-asthmatics should not wheeze. Did his intake form (at least I think that's what that was, it had most of the details of one) online so we could just print it out and send it off with him. Not sure what's going to come of that since it looks like I'll be leaving before he gets back, but we'll see.

Finished what I think are all the current eps of this season of Sons of Anarchy, to which I can only say oh my god you all are a bunch of morons. Including Tara, although her moronicness is less actions and more dear god woman you knew what you were getting into did you think a biker gang was going to be sunshine and puppies? I mean, really. You should have delivered Jax the we go or I go ultimatum months ago, but no, you had to stick around on the promise that things would get better. Because that has a high probability of working out no really. No, I take it back, Tig's idiot ball isn't superglued to his hands so much, he did a stupid but he knows how stupid it was and he considers it worth it, so at least that's some self-awareness. I feel a little justified in liking him now that he's the smart one. Clay I just want to punch.

Oof. Didn't get exercises done this morning on account of taking care of the boy, so it's hard to tell if my draggy feeling is not having done my exercises or impending plague of doom. I'm guessing it's the whole not having exercised thing, though. The worst I have is sniffles, of the just woke up kind and the just got out of the shower kind, both of which seem to have subsided by now. Still, if I get sick, I am killing everyone ever, I just want y'all to know that right now.

At least he's not completely passed out in bed ER time invalid. Still annoying me in silly funny ways, still staggering around the apartment when he can't sleep, still managing to sleep when he's hopped up on drugs. Mmm NyQuil. Just, argh, I hope they can give him some good meds and that his work can not be a pack of douchebags about the sick time. ... You can tell I'm worried, I haven't done a victory dance over finishing the Russian book yet. Consider this my victory dance.