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Alfonso Mauricio Rodriguez Posted 14 years ago
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I confuse participle and gerund. Does anyone know a way to distinguish them?
  

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You probably mean that you confuse present participles with gerunds because both have -ing. Past participles don't have -ing, so those probably don't confuse you. , if it's a subject or object of a clause or object of a preposition), it's a gerund; otherwise, it's a participle.

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  • You probably mean that you confuse present participles with gerunds because both have -ing.
  • Past participles don't have -ing, so those probably don't confuse you.
  • , if it's a subject or object of a clause or object of a preposition), it's a gerund; otherwise, it's a participle.
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You probably mean that you confuse present participles with gerunds because both have -ing. Past participles don't have -ing, so those probably don't confuse you.

If the -ing word acts as a noun within the syntactic structure of the sentence (i.e., if it's a subject or object of a clause or object of a preposition), it's a gerund; otherwise, it's a participle.

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Hello, Alfonso—and welcome to English Forums.

A gerund is just an -ing participle used as a noun. You can find an explanation and examples here: http://www.EnglishForward.com/English/GerundVsPresentParticiple/bmzhr/post.htm
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Alfonso Mauricio Rodriguez I confuse participle and gerund. Does anyone know a way to distinguish them?
You cannot distinguish them if the word stands by itself. A gerund looks exactly like a present participle.
You can only tell the difference when the word is used in a sentence.

Gerunds are used as nouns.
Present participles are used as mod
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