Where have all the gerunds gone?

Date: 2007.11.30 | Category: General | Tags:

I’ve noticed, in education school settings, what is for me a jarring tendency to drop the “-ing” suffix on gerunds. Students do a “two day teach” and I just heard someone complain about the “quality of the think” in a body of work. Is this something going on more generally, and just one more indicator (like the vanishing “less/fewer” distinction) that I’ve fallen off the bandwagon of linguistic evolution?