Poll: What are we meant to be doing?
What are we meant to be doing? |
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Votes: 366
Comments: 7
Added: June 2004
Comments:
| alex - 14th October 2005 23:58 |
| This strictly speaking is none of the above. It is the present progressive/continuous. A gerund is: Doing that is stupid. A present participle is: Doing my homework I was thoroughly bored. And there's no way in hell I can use it as an adjective. |
| Youwot? - 21st November 2005 07:03 |
| It's a present participle- the present progressive/continuous uses the auxiliary verb 'be' + present participle. |
| nevar111 - 12th November 2006 00:48 |
| Yeah right---Alex. An ESL is going to know "present progressive/continuous". Get a life. |
| MikeC - 7th December 2006 10:07 |
| Alex doesn't know what he is talking abut. |
| kristina - 18th April 2007 10:25 |
| i was told that doing was an adjective in school |
| Dalriata - 21st April 2007 21:58 |
| What's an 'ESL'..? |
| Leo Girard - 23rd September 2007 18:10 |
| Gerunds and participles take the same form (usually ending in -ing). If it is used as a noun (Golfing is fun) it is called a gerund; if it is used in a verb phrase (I am not golfing today because it is raing) it is called a participle. |
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