How To Use Present participle In A Sentence
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Personally, I like the sound of that: an active process, implied by the present participle, or indeed by the gerundive.
Archive 2007-02-01
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The teacher will question us on the use of present participles tomorrow.
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The teacher will question us on the use of present participles tomorrow.
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Remember that a gerund is a present participle of a verb (the - ing form) that is being treated like a noun:
2008 February « Motivated Grammar
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The teacher will question us on the use of present participles tomorrow.
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The present participle is often used passively.
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Verb to pettifog (third-person singular simple present pettifogs, present participle pettifogging, simple past and past participle pettifogged) 8500 was just a number I picked out of thin air.
Hazel8500
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To shift the discussion just a bit, whether or not we say present participles and gerunds should be differentiated as distinct parts of speech, it still seems to me that except for in cases of a present participle in the slot of attributive adjective (ex/The steering wheel of my car is blue) gerunds and present participles take objects (I like driving my car).
G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT
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The teacher will question us on the use of present participles tomorrow.
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It is part art, part emotion, part inspiration, and part active present participle.
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If, rejecting the word Thing, we endeavour to find another of a more general import, or at least more exclusively confined to that general import, a word denoting all that exists, and connoting only simple existence; no word might be presumed fitter for such a purpose than _being_: originally the present participle of a verb which in one of its meanings is exactly equivalent to the verb _exist_; and therefore suitable, even by its grammatical formation, to be the concrete of the abstract _existence_.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Verb to pettifog (third-person singular simple present pettifogs, present participle pettifogging, simple past and past participle pettifogged) 8500 was just a number I picked out of thin air.
Hazel8500
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I can tell you how an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase works but I can't tell you how to properly use present participles.
Reasoned School Reform
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A gerund is a present participle (verb form) that functions as a noun.
Presente Progresiva?
