From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 15:30:29 MDT
Steve Davies writes
>Just to confuse things more there's the gerundive which
>also ends in "ing" but is a verbal adjective ie it qualifies
>a noun or pronoun. eg "the thinking man" - "thinking"
>qualifies the noun "man".
Well, this sounds like what that stupid web site I was
at calls a "Present Participle". Erudite one! Is gerundive
the same as "Present Participle", or if not, how are they
different.
Lee
>>St. Google writes,
>>
>>"Every gerund, without exception, ends in -ing. Gerunds are not,
>>however, all that easy to pick out. The problem is that all
>>present participles also end in -ing. What is the difference?
>>
>>Gerunds function as nouns. Thus, gerunds will be subjects, subject
>>complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of
>>prepositions. Present participles, on the other hand, complete
>>progressive verbs or act as modifiers.
>>
>>Read these examples:
>>
>>[These here are **gerunds**:]
>>
>>Since Francisco was five years old, swimming has been his passion.
>>Swimming = subject of the verb has been
>>
>>Francisco's first love is swimming.
>>Swimming = subject complement of the verb is
>>
>>Francisco gives swimming all of his energy and time.
>>Swimming = indirect object of the verb gives
>>
>>
>>[And these here are, I guess, **present participles**:]
>>
>>Francisco and his coach were swimming at Daytona Beach.
>>Swimming = present participle completing the past
>>progressive verb were swimming
>>
>>A great white shark ate Franciso's swimming coach.
>>Swimming = present participle modifying coach
>>
>>Now Francisco only practices in swimming pools.
>>Swimming = present participle modifying pools"
>>
>>Lee
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