hyang
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- Mar 27, 2013
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- English
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- UK
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- UK
I am trying to determine how these present participles are being used.
Please confirm or correct my ‘best guesses’. Thank you.
1) It looks exciting. - adjective
2) I like you rubbing my tummy. - gerund
3) You have been rubbing my tummy. - present participle
4) We saw him swimming. - present participle
5) Swimming quickly he soon left our view - adjective
6) She is wearing a scarf. - present participle
7) He is standing by himself. - present participle
8) He is over there standing all alone. - adjective
9) He wasn’t standing over there yesterday. - present participle
10) He was just sort of standing there. - present participle
11) He may have been standing for a while - present participle
12) I saw him standing over there. - present participle
13) I couldn’t understand why he was standing alone. - gerund
14) Standing on the bridge he looked down at me - adjective
15) At least he seemed to be standing alone. - gerund