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A noun that is formed from a verb and which describes an action. In English it ends in -ing, eg 'the baking of bread' and 'Smoking damages your health'.

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1. The fact that furniture is separated out from the specific items of furniture listed makes me think they mean ‘furniture’ in the Soylent Green sense.

   http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:ta7sA7jcITcJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green+soylent+green+furniture&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

   Comment by sars — 8th March, 2010 @ 3:20 pm

2. Ideally, the fluorescent sign in the window would feature an apostrophe in ‘BEDS’ as I have seen in the past.

   Comment by Capybara — 29th March, 2010 @ 5:06 pm

3. [...] to a previous post about rampant quotation mark abuse at a Nottingham furniture shop, GrammarBlog’s Nottingham correspondent Samantha Moran has spotted another case of WRONG at [...]

   Pingback by All part of the servis - GrammarBlog — 29th May, 2010 @ 10:41 pm

4. Too much quotation marks! try using comma instead

   Comment by Jennifer"quiz software" — 15th September, 2011 @ 6:04 am

5. Haha, I am really LMAO~ing at the “QUALITY” and the “LOW PRICE”.

   Those are the words that stand out in the ads aren’t they? Is this some kind of joke or I wonder if they are doing it in purpose to humour their customers.

   Comment by Chase Handler — 5th October, 2011 @ 11:59 pm

6. Now a days lot of peoples foolish by wrong seller. We are not foolish so we will buy a quality office furniture. Thanks for giving opportunity to post my comment.

   Comment by office furniture — 13th October, 2011 @ 11:07 am

7. This is definitely the funniest grammar mistake out there. Every morning, I drive by a farm with a large sign that reads “‘SOYBEANS’.”

   I wonder what they’re really doing out there.

   Comment by Jessica — 11th December, 2011 @ 4:22 am

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