The word "challenging" as a verb?

Question

Can anyone comment on whether this is correct usage of the word "challenging". I have reviewed various dictionary entries for "challenge" and its various forms but am still unsure:

"Who(m) are the Cowboys challenging this Sunday?"

I'm not a grammar expert but am thinking the use of "challenging" as a verb in this sentence IS correct.

Having said that, I'm completely open to being incorrect about this and would love an explanation either way.

Thanks!
TPPB21

Answer 1

you are correct
Verb

to challenge (third-person singular simple present challenges, present participle challenging, simple past challenged, past participle challenged)

Infinitive
to challenge


Third person singular
challenges


Simple past
challenged


Past participle
challenged


Present participle
challenging

1. To invite someone to take part in a competition
2. To dare someone
3. To dispute something
4. (law) To make a formal objection to a juror

Answer 2

You have used the word correctly.

Although why not just say, who are the Cowboys playing this Sunday?

The use of challenging is a little awkward, another words.

Answer 3

Who are the Cowboys challenging this Sunday? is grammatically correct, but challenging I believe is an adverb here, the verb being "are" ...hmmm, English teachers, where are you? He has written a challenging question...

grinningly ;)
cryllie

Answer 4

You've already been given lists of all the "PERFECT" rhymes -- except that some of those lists include questionable entries. That's because for a PERFECT rhyme, the WORD-stress at the end of the two words must also match. Obviously "verb" accents the LAST syllable (since there are no others!). "Perturb" matches that, but words like "adverb" which stress the first syllable, do not. So you'd have to OMIT: adverb, exurb, proverb, reverb [depending on how you pronounce it], suburb. (Note that these may "work" in a particular poem --like the 'near rhymes' listed below -- so use them if they do But they are NOT "perfect rhymes".) This narrows the perfect rhymes to something like: * blurb, curb, disturb, herb, Herb, perturb, Serb, superb (I omit any multi-word rhymes that simply include one of these words, such as "herb". They don't really add anything. I also skip any rare proper names -- which are common in listings at "rhymezone" and the like, where a few answer-ers have clearly been visiting. But they are generally worthless for writing poetry!) ______________ Now for POETIC purposes, there are also a number of very useful "NEAR" rhymes, which will work just fine. Especially useful are those ending in the sound /irv/, since the first two sounds are identical, and the final one --/v/-- is extremely close to the /t/ of "verb". * curve, deserve, hors d'oeuvre, (un)nerve, reserve, serve, swerve [names: Irv {for "Irving"}, Merv] Others that may work: ending with /p/ (same sound as /b/ but without the voice) * burp, slurp. twerp ending with the other 'voiced stops' (/g/, /d/) * erg * absurd, averred, bird, blurred, conferred, curd, deferred, (un)deterred, gird, (mis/un)heard, incurred, inferred, interred, nerd, (re)occurred, recurred, referred, sherd, spurred, surd, terd, third, (re)word You might also find that words ending with a final accented /er/, omitting the final sound, will do what you need, e.g, * aver, blur, burr, confer, cur, defer, deter, her, incur,infer, inter, myrrh, per, (re)occur, recur, refer sir, spur, stir, were

Answer 5

Whom will the cowboys be challenging this Sunday?
(Are) implies the present tense. Since this event is in the future, (will be) is more appropriate.Meaning- about to happen.

Answer 6

It depends, i guess. But i am almost sure it is challenged.

example The girl challenged the boy.
(verb)

Answer 7

you are correct. in that context, challenging is a verb.

it's also an adjective "that is a challenging puzzle"

Answer 8

That's perfectly correct grammer =)

Answer 9

you are correctly using challenging as a verb......in a present participle tense.

you shouldn't use whom because it implies prepositions.

use who.

Answer 10

Yes, that is correct.