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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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how can we find perfect gerund and present gerund???
  

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The perfect gerund has having plus a past participle. having taken; having seen ; etc. The present gerund just has the -ing form.

— CalifJim

  • The perfect gerund has having plus a past participle.
  • having taken; having seen ; etc.
  • The present gerund just has the -ing form.
  • taking; seeing ; etc.
  • CJ
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The perfect gerund has having plus a past participle. having taken; having seen; etc.

The present gerund just has the -ing form. taking; seeing; etc.

CJ
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Anonymoushow can we find perfect gerund and present gerund???
You won't because they don't exist. 'Perfect' and 'present' are the names of tenses, but the gerund form of the verb is tenseless. It can only figure in non-finite (tenseless) clauses.

BillJ
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BillJthey don't exist.
And yet you can get almost 5,000 hits on Google for the phrase "perfect gerund".
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BillJ
Anonymoushow can we find perfect gerund and present gerund???
You won't because they don't exist. 'Perfect' and 'present' are the names of tenses, but the gerund form of the verb is tenseless. It can only figure in non-finite (tenseless) clauses.

BillJ
Hi,

I'm just trying to follow your logic and say
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