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...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.
Thanks!
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 !!
