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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Non Finites

Our church is helping in the rescue mission.Is helping a gerund or participle?
  

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It is participle since it's in the form of present continuous. Iman

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  • It is participle since it's in the form of present continuous.
  • Iman
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It is participle since it's in the form of present continuous.

Iman
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It's a (present) participle. In this particular case (present progressive/continuous), some would label it as a "main verb" and "is" as an "auxiliary."
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Hi

Here's a gerund (or 'verb noun') ...

- Our helping them only makes a small difference, but it's important

Dave
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