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Emilysss Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

an explanation of word ???

periphery : occurring away from the center

occuring is an adjective or gerund ?

hungry : feeling hunger

feeling is a gerund or adjective ? WHY ? Please help Emotion: sad
  

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emilysss periphery : occurring away from the center ; hungry : feeling hunger These do not represent sentences, so there is no way to assign definitive function to those '-ing' verb forms. As you have no doubt noticed, one defines a noun and the other defines an adjective, so you can presume that they are of the same word class, I suppose.

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  • emilysss periphery : occurring away from the center ; hungry : feeling hunger These do not represent sentences, so there is no way to assign definitive function to those '-ing' verb forms.
  • As you have no doubt noticed, one defines a noun and the other defines an adjective, so you can presume that they are of the same word class, I suppose.
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emilysssperiphery : occurring away from the center ; hungry : feeling hunger
These do not represent sentences, so there is no way to assign definitive function to those '-ing' verb forms. As you have no doubt noticed, one defines a noun and the other defines an adjective, so you can presume that they are of the same word class, I suppose.
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