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Lily_Vn Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Perfect gerund and perfect participle difference

Hello, I have no idea about the difference between perfect gerund and perfect participle. May anyone say something about it and give me some examples?
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Lily_Vn perfect gerund and perfect participle I am not familiar with perfect gerund and perfect participle. But if I have to guess, it will be something like: I have just finished painting my house. Here Painting is a participle.

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  • Lily_Vn perfect gerund and perfect participle I am not familiar with perfect gerund and perfect participle.
  • But if I have to guess, it will be something like: I have just finished painting my house.
  • Here Painting is a participle.
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Lily_Vnperfect gerund and perfect participle

I am not familiar with perfect gerund and perfect participle. But if I have to guess, it will be something like:

I have just finished painting my house. Here Painting is a participle.
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A gerund is noun-like in function. A participle is a modifier. A participle can be a present participle or a past participle.

Gerund: taking (used where a noun would be used in a sentence)
Present participle: taking (used where a modifier would be used)
Past participle: taken

The perfect forms begin with the auxiliary have.
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Hello,
Thanks for your response. These are some sentences using perfect gerund or perfect participle. Based on what you said, I determine it myself. Please correct it if I'm wrong.
1) I object him to having made private calls on the office phone. (perfect gerund)
2) Having been his own boss for such a long time, he found it hard to accepts orders from another. (perfect participle)
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I think you may have copied the first one wrong. It should probably read like this:

I object to his having made ...

In the second one, it's ... hard to accept orders ...


All your answers are correct.

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Thank you ever so much indeed !!!! I'm studying for my competitive exams and it has been a great help. Greetings from Estepona (Malaga)
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CalifJim
Gerund: having taken (used as a noun)

Present participle: having taken (used as a modifier)
Past participle: [not possible]



Is 'having been taken' not the past perfect participle?
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English 1b3Is 'having been taken' not the past perfect participle?
I was trying to show that the auxiliary has to have -ing. It can't be had. You can't have the participle had taken.

The terminology is confusing because what we call a present participle is actually more like an active participle and what we call a past participl
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CalifJimYou can't have the participle had taken.

Why can't you, aside from that 'hading' makes no sense?
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I can only answer that question with other questions.

Why can't you have "You was be late"?

Why can't you have "was having been being taking"?
Why can't you have a circle that is square in shape?

These are all just mysteries of the universe!

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