gerunds and infinitives

[osamin]

Gerunds and Infinitives though derived from verbs they do the role of a noun in a sentence ; they can be modified with adjectives ( a feature of a noun ) they can also be modified by adverbs ( a feature of a verb ) . the question is -Which part of speech are they?

 

[TheParser]

Gerunds and Infinitives though derived from verbs they do the role of a noun in a sentence ; they can be modified with adjectives ( a feature of a noun ) they can also be modified by adverbs ( a feature of a verb ) . the question is -Which part of speech are they?

********** NOT a teacher **********

Teacher Osamin,

If you are teaching the traditional 8 parts of speech

(noun, verb, pronoun, adverb, adjective, conjunction, preposition,

and interjection), then I guess that you have no choice but to list

infinitives and gerunds under the category of verbs.

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar says that:

(1) infinitive = base form of a verb; often proceded by to.

(2) gerund = the -ing form of the verb.

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