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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(grammar) The form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb..
Near-synonyms: (in other operational definitions) gerund, present participle
The gerund-participle ¶ Traditionally (for example, in the grammar of Latin), a gerund is a verb-form that is functionally similar to a noun, whereas a participle is one that is functionally similar to an adjective.
THE TERM 'GERUND-PARTICIPLE' used in the title of this paper is adopted from Huddleston and Pullum (2002:80), who see no reason to give priority to one or the other of the traditional terms used to refer to the verbal uses of the English -ing form illustrated in (1):
The intralinguistic analysis carried out on our sample has revealed that, on average, the English gerund-participle is frequently used to realize circumstance adverbials, which may express a great variety of semantic roles.
Therefore I was happy when Geoffrey Pullum and Rodney Huddleston, in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, presented a clear and compelling argument that "A distinction between gerund and present participle can't be sustained" (pp. 80-83 and 1220-1222). They therefore use the merged category "gerund-participle".
This amounted to 176 occurrences of the gerund-participle and 49 of the to-infinitive, an interesting statistic in itself, as it confirms the more noun-like character of the gerund-participle, ...
Use gerund-participle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gerund-participle means (grammar) The form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb..
Common synonyms include ing-form, gerund, present participle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonyms: (in other operational definitions) gerund, present participle
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