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by avik.ch » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:34 am
confuse mind wrote:Can someone please help me with some text in this text or some examples. This is an ongoing confusion in the modifiers.

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a gerund is a noun - they are noun as they take up the noun slot in the sentence i.e subject, object...

Swimming is fun. Subject is a noun slot and hence the ing form of the verb becomes a noun.

A gerund test : use "the act of..."

The act of swimming is fun - makes sense, correct. Swimming is a gerund.

all participle ( present and past) functionally is an adjective. The presence of the finite verb makes it a verb.

Hope this helps !!
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