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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Gerund or present participle?

She liked baking cakes.is it gerund or present participle?
  

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Anonymous She liked baking cakes. I s it gerund or present participle? She likes cakes.

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  • Anonymous She liked baking cakes.
  • I s it gerund or present participle?
  • She likes cakes.
  • She likes baking (cakes).
  • Baking cakes is a noun phrase, so it is a gerund.
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Anonymous She liked baking cakes. Is it gerund or present participle?
She likes cakes.
She likes baking (cakes). Baking cakes is a noun phrase, so it is a gerund.
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"baking cakes" is a gerund phrase, and "cakes" is the object of the gerund "baking".
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Anonymous She liked baking cakes.is it gerund or present participle?
In your sentence it is clearly a gerund.
In other cases, you could read it either way. Each one has a different meaning.

She likes steaming rice.
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AlpheccaStars In other cases, you could read it either way. Each one has a different meaning. She likes steaming rice.
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grammarfreakI was taught that as a rule of thumb, any "ing" form of a verb after verbs of passion, such as "like","love", and "hate", the "ing" form is usually a gerund. e.g. I hate shopping ( for clothes with my wife) / I hate doing dishes, but I don't mind cooking. Do you agree that " shopping " and "doing (dishes)" can only be
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