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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

apologizing

My grandpa sent me a letter apologizing for not congratulating me about my graduation last spring.

I would like to know if "apologizing" is a gerund or participle.
  

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Anonymous I would like to know if "apologizing" is a gerund or participle. It's not the subject ( my grandpa ). It's not an object, indirect or direct ( me; a letter ).

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous I would like to know if "apologizing" is a gerund or participle.
  • It's not the subject ( my grandpa ).
  • It's not an object, indirect or direct ( me; a letter ).
  • It's not an object of a preposition ( my graduation ).
  • It doesn't occur anywhere else in the sentence where a noun could occur.
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AnonymousI would like to know if "apologizing" is a gerund or participle.
It's not the subject (my grandpa).
It's not an object, indirect or direct (me; a letter).
It's not an object of a preposition (my graduation).
It doesn't occur anywhere else in the sentence where a noun could occur.
So it can't be a gerund.
So it
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