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Jooney Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Gerund or Present participle?

Hi all,

Picture yourself jumping high or doing amazing tricks.

Are those underlined words gerunds or present participles?

I'd like to hear a native speaker's opinion on this. Thank you.
  

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jooney Picture yourself jumping high or doing amazing tricks. Present participles.

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  • Present participles.
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jooneyPicture yourself jumping high or doing amazing tricks.
Present participles.
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jooney
Picture yourself jumping high or doing amazing tricks.
I would call jumping and doing gerunds.

The verb picture takes an object and the gerund phrases are the objects.

Here is an example of the same words as present participles:

Jumping high and doing amazing tricks, Rover was the star of the dog show.
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