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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 7686712" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Having no further interest in debating this--because you have, exactly as I said, bit the bullet about &quot;natural weapons are not weapons&quot;--I have only this one last bit to comment on: Every single one of the things you've just cited is a noun. Each is modified by an adjective (&quot;-ing&quot; in English can only create adjectives or nouns aka gerunds), rather than an adverb (which typically ends in &quot;-ly.&quot;) &quot;Flurry&quot; is almost exclusively used as a noun (&quot;a flurry of x,&quot; be it snow, papers, blows, etc.) Both of the other two are nouns which refer to an event, because they can't be conjugated, except in the extremely loose and informal way that allows nouns or even entire noun-phrases to be conjugated as if they were verbs (&quot;I fireballed the owlbear,&quot; &quot;She Second Winds at the first sign of trouble.&quot; &quot;I TL;DR'd that grammar rant.&quot;)Or, to think of it another way: I have never seen anyone use the phrase &quot;I unarmed(ly) struck it!&quot;, &quot;I strike unarmed!&quot; or even &quot;When unarmed striking...&quot; It's always, &quot;I used unarmed strike,&quot; &quot;I make an unarmed strike,&quot; possibly &quot;I take an unarmed strike,&quot; or something similar (though I'll grant that my direct-in-play experience is rare, discussions in forums are quite common). If, in the usage, it is never conjugated, but always made the object of some helper verb (like &quot;use&quot; or &quot;make&quot;), then it is best understood as a noun. An unarmed strike is a noun in exactly the same way that &quot;a walk,&quot; &quot;a dip,&quot; or &quot;a nap&quot; are nouns, even though the only possible sense they can have is as activities, events, which are &quot;things&quot; in a temporal sense. So instead of being structured as, &quot;I will nap,&quot; &quot;I'm walking,&quot; &quot;I dipped,&quot; we use a helper verb to indicate that a particular event is, was, or will be happening: &quot;I'm taking a nap,&quot; &quot;She's gone out for a walk,&quot; &quot;He took a dip in the cold lake.&quot;So, no. It is, almost without exception, referred to with an article (an unarmed strike), it does not conjugate, and it is modified by an adjective (unarmed) rather than an adverb (unarmedly(?)). It is a noun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 7686712, member: 6790260"] Having no further interest in debating this--because you have, exactly as I said, bit the bullet about "natural weapons are not weapons"--I have only this one last bit to comment on: Every single one of the things you've just cited is a noun. Each is modified by an adjective ("-ing" in English can only create adjectives or nouns aka gerunds), rather than an adverb (which typically ends in "-ly.") "Flurry" is almost exclusively used as a noun ("a flurry of x," be it snow, papers, blows, etc.) Both of the other two are nouns which refer to an event, because they can't be conjugated, except in the extremely loose and informal way that allows nouns or even entire noun-phrases to be conjugated as if they were verbs ("I [I]fireball[/I]ed the owlbear," "She [I]Second Wind[/I]s at the first sign of trouble." "I [I]TL;DR[/I]'d that grammar rant.") Or, to think of it another way: I have never seen anyone use the phrase "I unarmed(ly) struck it!", "I strike unarmed!" or even "When unarmed striking..." It's always, "I used unarmed strike," "I make an unarmed strike," possibly "I take an unarmed strike," or something similar (though I'll grant that my direct-in-play experience is rare, discussions in forums are quite common). If, in the usage, it is never conjugated, but always made the object of some helper verb (like "use" or "make"), then it is best understood as a noun. An unarmed strike is a noun in exactly the same way that "a walk," "a dip," or "a nap" are nouns, even though the only possible sense they can have is as activities, [I]events[/I], which are "things" in a temporal sense. So instead of being structured as, "I will nap," "I'm walking," "I dipped," we use a helper verb to indicate that a particular event is, was, or will be happening: "I'm taking a nap," "She's gone out for a walk," "He took a dip in the cold lake." So, no. It is, almost without exception, referred to with an article ([I]an[/I] unarmed strike), it does not conjugate, and it is modified by an adjective (unarmed) rather than an adverb (unarmedly(?)). It is a noun. [/QUOTE]

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