What is the difference between gerund and present participle?

Answer 1

Both are the verb form ending in ING. The difference is that gerunds are nouns and participles are adjectives.

Example: SWIMMING is fun. Swimming is used as a noun, subject of the verb is. (gerund)

Example: I love swimming. Swimming is a noun used as direct object of the verb like. (gerund)

Example: I think I will give swimming a try. Swimming is a noun used as indirect object of the verb will give. (gerund)

Example: The ducks swimming in the lake were all females. Swimming is an adjective modifying ducks. (participle)

Example: The swimming instructor was an excellent teacher. Swimming is an adjective modifying instructor. (participle)

Example: Drew is just a swimming machine. Swimming is an adjective modifying machine. (participle)

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Answer 2

Difference Between Gerund And Participle

Answer 3

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What is the difference between gerund and present participle?

Answer 4

In linguistics, a gerund is a kind of verbal noun that exists in some languages. In today's English, it can behave as a verb within a clause (so that, for example, it may be modified by an adverb or have an object), but the clause as a whole (sometimes consisting only of one word, the gerund) acts as a noun within the larger sentence. For example:

Editing this article is very easy.
Within the clause "Editing this article," the word "Editing" behaves as a verb; in particular the phrase "this article" is the object of that verb. But the whole clause "Editing this article" acts as a noun within the sentence as a whole; it is the subject of the verb "is".

In English, a verb's gerund is formed using the -ing ending. It is identical to the present participle in form, but behaves differently in syntax.

Examples of the gerund:

I like writing. (direct object)
Programming is fun. (subject)

In linguistics, a participle is a kind of verbal adjective; it indicates that the noun it modifies is a participant in the action that the participle refers to.

Answer 5

Gerunds are verb in form, noun in function, usually ending in -ing.
My hobby is drawing.

Present participles are verb in form, adj. in function, usually ending in -ing.
The crying lady was there.

Answer 6

gerund is a noun form of a verb and a prersent participle is a verb form.

Answer 7

gerunds are nouns and can be identified by asking what after the noun whereas participles are adjectives

Answer 8

in simple gerunds are objects or subjects of preposition or verb
whereas participles are not subject of anything

Answer 9

The gerund is used pretty much the same as in the Present Continuous in English. The ending "-ing" in English corresponds to the "-ndo" in Portuguese. Eu estou comeNDO - I am eatING (verb: comer) Ele está leNDO - He is readING (verb: ler) Nós estamos fazeNDO isso - We are doING this (verb: fazer) As you can see it's very simple, you just have to leave the last "-r" out from the verb infinitives and add the -ndo ending. About the "-ante" it's used sometimes to form nouns. "Falante" (speaker), "Requerente" (requirer), Estudante (student) but it's not always like this, there's also the "-or" ending, e.g.: "Leitor" (reader), "Bebedor" (drinker), Carregador (carrier), etc

Answer 10

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