English grammar: Gerund with participle meaning

[Archanaanand]

hi,

please explain to me about this subject.

thanks.

[Jamie (K)]

It will be easier if you give us an idea of what specifically is confusing you.

[Proalyssa199]

Do you mean 'Present Participle' like in this sentence: "Walking down the stairs, he failed."?

[Jamie (K)]

[Proalyssa199]

It's "fell", sorry

[Aleaf]

Gerund is gerund and Present participle is present participle. They are totally different.
Gerund is a knid of verb but nominalization. So it functions like a noun and can be used as subject, object, subject predicative and attribute,etc
Pariciple is also a kind of verb but similar to adverb or adjevtive, so it can be used as adverbial ,object complement, predicative and attribute,etc.

In the sentence you wrote: Walking down the stairs, he fell. Waliking= When he walked... so it functions as an adverbial. Waliking here is a present participle not a gerund.

Gerund can't function as an adverbial.Do remember Gerund almost= a noun. Noun can't function as an adverbial forever.
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