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in the sentence I saw him singing, is singing a present participle or gerund?
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Note my corrections.iIn the sentence,(no comma) I saw him singing, is singingisa present participle or gerund?
Gerund works as a noun, whereas the participle is a verb formWhat are you thinking the difference is between the two?
in the sentence I saw him singing, is singing a present participle or gerund?
I'd write Some modern grammarians ...Modern grammar simplifies matters by categorising both -ing forms as 'gerund-participles'. How much simpler is that!
I'd write Some modern grammarians ...
Others name use different names. Declerck (2006) sticks with the traditional gerunds and participles, Aarts (2011) goes for -ing participles.
I use -ing forms.
pot - kettle.You're nit-picking for the sake of it.
-ing participles and -ing forms strike me as even more simple and obvious.Huddleston's term is perfect and obvious.
pot - kettle.
-ing participles and -ing forms strike me as even more simple and obvious.
Right.But the traditional distinction between gerunds and present participles is not important,
Huddleston's term is perfect and obvious.
-ing participles and -ing forms strike me as even more simple and obvious.
As most of us no longer distinguish between gerunds and participles, it seems pointless to use these two names for the -ing form.Their weakness is that neither conveys the fact that it combines the traditional gerund and present participle.
Right.
As most of us no longer distinguish between gerunds and participles, it seems pointless to use these two names for the -ing form.
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