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Difference between gerund and present participle [duplicate]
What is the difference between a gerund and present participle? When should we use a gerund and when should we use a present participle ?
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Verb, gerund or participle? [duplicate]
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What's the difference between a gerund and a participle?
The doctor was talking to the patient.
Here 'talking' is used as verb, gerund or participle?
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Is the gerund and (present) participle form always the same (spelling)? [duplicate]
Are the participle and gerund form of a verb always technically the same and in all tenses (in the sense of spelling) or do deviations exist?
Reason is because I'm building a database and need to know ...
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Gerund or Participle? Which one is correct? [duplicate]
What do you think of these sentences? I found them on the Net. I mean, should they function here as a gerund or a participle? Are both of them possible?
1 Smoking cigarettes are dangerous
2 Smoking ...
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Participle or Gerund? [duplicate]
Is “ferrying” in the following passage a gerund or a present participle?
In March 2016, Zipline, a U.S. startup partnered with the Rwandan government to launch the world’s first commercial drone ...
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When is a gerund supposed to be preceded by a possessive adjective/determiner?
I assume that the following sentences are all acceptable:
He resents your being more popular than he is.
Most of the members paid their dues without my asking them.
They objected to the youngest girl’...
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How many parts of speech can a word be at the same time?
ᴛʟᴅʀ: Is it ever possible for a sentence to have a word in it that is simultaneously more than one single part of speech in that sentence under the same parse and meaning?
(For example, a few possible ...
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Does a gerund always end with "-ing"? If so, why?
After asking what the difference is between a gerund and a participle, I began to wonder if all gerunds end with -ing, since I couldn't think of any that didn't. If they do, why?
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Should I modify a gerund using an adjective or an adverb?
I know that a gerund is a noun, so it should be modified by an adjective. However, it is also a verb form. Can I modify it by using an adverb?
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When does a gerund become a verb?
My question is a follow-up to one in which I identified stealing and killing in a particular sentence as gerunds. Bill J commented to the effect that if objects followed these gerunds, the latter ...
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Gerund ending in -ings?
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Savings
Shavings
Drippings
Are these gerunds?
I found some resources (below) that don't seem to provide definitive answers.
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How do you differentiate between a transitive verb and a noun?
I have several components in a piece of software I am working with and we want to select names that are nouns which describe the components.
We have the following names:
Automation
Retrieval
Parsing
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Gerund vs Present Participle: "I was thinking about eating the apple."
A quick question that has popped up from talking with my German pen-pal. In the sentence:
I was thinking about eating the apple.
Is eating there a gerund or a present participle?
If it is just:
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It is about Gerunds and present participle [duplicate]
Please clarify if what I have mentioned below is correct.
I like painting. - Gerund?
I like painting pictures. - Present participle?
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For the linguists among us: I like loud singing vs I like singing loudly
Can you explain why using "loud" as either an adjective or an adverb changes the meaning of the sentence. Is it just an English convention, or is there something deeper going on?
I like loud singing =...
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