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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Verbals

Hi,

Would like to know to know the difference between a Gerund and a present participle. How to spot the real difference.

Thanks,

Dits
  

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Hi Dits: There is no visual difference between them. However, there is a big functional difference: in a sentence, the gerund is used as a noun, and the present participle as a verb part or an adjective.

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  • Hi Dits: There is no visual difference between them.
  • However, there is a big functional difference: in a sentence, the gerund is used as a noun, and the present participle as a verb part or an adjective.
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Hi Dits:

There is no visual difference between them.

However, there is a big functional difference: in a sentence, the gerund is used as a noun, and the present participle as a verb part or an adjective.
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Anonymousthe difference between a gerund and a present participle
If it acts like a noun, that is, it is the subject or object of the verb or an object of a preposition or anything else a noun can be, it's a gerund. Otherwise, it's a participle.

Sometimes you can test for the difference by adding "the act of" in front of the -ing
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