Coop takes his own sweet time walking home along the alley between the storebacks and the railway embankment.

Let the sighs of Fiona rise on the dark heaths of her lovely Ardan.

The Spanish gerund is quite unlike the English -ing form (‘walking’, ‘replying’, ‘saying’, etc.), which can function as a gerund, a present participle, a noun or an adjective; and it is also unlike the French form ending in -ant, which covers the functions of both the Spanish gerund and the adjectival form in -ante, -(i)ente discussed at 19.4.

Most nanosizing approaches to obtain nanosuspensions involve bottom-up methods (such as microprecipitation and supercritical fluid methods) or top-down methods (such as wet-milling and high pressure homogenization) [19 –23 ].