Passive voice or present continuous

"being hungry" is a gerund phrase. It is used as a noun, object of the preposition "in spite of."
Some modern grammarians would call it a non-finite clause, complement of the preposition, but that is a matter of terminology.

Here is a similar construction for comparison:

I found my keys in spite of the darkness.

In this sentence, the same phrase is a modifier:

Thank you so much for your help, and teach me a 'gerund phrase', english is a very difficult language to me. I am reading a stude

AlpheccaStarsIn this sentence, the same phrase is a modifier:Being hungry, he ate everything on his plate and asked for more.

Yes, "being hungry" is a participle phrase here even though it looks the same as the gerund in the original sentence.

Thank you so much for your reply, "participle phrase' is very difficult, I think it belongs to high level english. but I am only beginner level.. I think the excercise can put in high level english book.

ankhThank you so much for your reply, "participle phrase' is very difficult, I think it belongs to high level english.

Yes.
Do you know about English verbs?

English verbs have 4 parts: infinitive, past, present participle and past participle.
Regular verbs:
walk (infinitive)
walked (past = infinitive + -ed)
walking (present partici

IvanhrYes, "being hungry" is a participle phrase here even though it looks the same as the gerund in the original sentence.

Structurally, they are the same, as AS said. Both consist of verb + subjective predicative complement, so both belong to the same category. I prefer to call them gerund-participial clauses.

Aspara GusThey are the same, as AS said.

AS said 'being hungry' was a modifier and I agreed. I thought 'being hungry' modified a subject (he), which makes it a participle rather than a gerund.

IvanhrAS said 'being hungry' was a modifier and I agreed. I thought 'being hungry' modified a subject (he), which makes it a participle rather than a gerund.

AS said “In this sentence, the same phrase is a modifier”.

You said “...‘being hungry’" is a participle phrase here even though it looks the same as the gerund in the original sentence”.

ankh"I didn't eat anything in spite of being hungry". May I know why use "being" in this question?

We use the -ing form of a verb after a preposition. "of" is a preposition, so we use "being" after it, not 'be' or 'to be' or 'was' or any other form of the verb "be".

CJ

Aspara Gus, so it makes little sense to me to call it a participial construction in one place but a gerundial construction in another

I think quite the contrary. Since gerunds and participles are grammatically / semantically different, we must make this distinction. You may not like it, but using one or the other can change the meaning of a sentence completel