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gerund or noun #1 (permalink) Mon Jan 19, 2009 15:28 pm   gerund or noun		  
Hello everyone,I have a question about gerund and noun.I offen read news on the internet,and some of the news articles entitled "intel planning budget Quad-Core line up"or"virus spreading quickly".Is the "planning"or"spreading" here a gerund or a noun?Is this title"intel planning budget Quad-core line up" a contraction of:"intel is planning budget quad-core line up"?Thanks in advance : )
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gerund or noun #2 (permalink) Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:06 am   gerund or noun		  
I think they are present participles, which play a role of modifying the antecedent(i.e. the nouns before them). Gerund is different from present participle even though they have the same form: root verb + -ing. While the former is used like a noun, the latter is used as an adjective (phrase).
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gerund or noun #3 (permalink) Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:34 am   gerund or noun		  
Sweetpumpkin wrote:
I think they are present participles, which play a role of modifying the antecedent(i.e. the nouns before them). Gerund is different from present participle even though they have the same form: root verb + -ing. While the former is used like a noun, the latter is used as an adjective (phrase).


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