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Thankyou for helping me out.
Can you answer this, will let you know for further queries i may have.
You have mentioned that playing in (i have seen him playing) is a participle not gerund, though it is behaving like a noun not as an adjective?
Also Gerunds(even though behave as noun) but since can take objects thus it's wrong to say gerunds as noun?
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I have seen him playing . "Playing" has no noun-like properties in this particular example and hence must be a verb . This is a catenative construction where "see" is a catenative verb and the non-finite clause "playing" is its catenative complement.
- I have seen him playing .
- "Playing" has no noun-like properties in this particular example and hence must be a verb .
- This is a catenative construction where "see" is a catenative verb and the non-finite clause "playing" is its catenative complement.
- Syntactically, the intervening noun "him" is direct object of "seen", though it is also the understood (semantic) subject of "playing".
- It's important to understand that - ing forms are basically verbs, though some (but not all) can also function as nouns (or adjectives).
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I have seen him playing.
"Playing" has no noun-like properties in this particular example and hence must be a verb.
This is a catenative construction where "see" is a catenative verb and the non-finite clause "playing" is its catenative complement.
Syntactically, the intervening noun "him" is direct object of "seen", though it is also the understood (sema
0Sure Billj, thankyou so much for replying
Please Correct me if I'm wrong.
As per my knowledge ing either works as gerund, progressive verb or present participle
Gerund is used in following situations
As Subject, As object, subject complement, object to prepositions, with pronoun
As an adjective (present participle)
Above eg. I saw him playing f
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