Eating oranges

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User_gary

#312938 Tue, 09 Jan 07 05:59 AM

I am eating oranges everyday in the morning.

Here `eating' is adjective (i.e. past participle) or noun (i.e. Gerund)?

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Philip

#312942 Tue, 09 Jan 07 06:32 AM

User_gary wrote:

I am eating oranges everyday in the morning.

Here `eating' is adjective (i.e. past participle) or noun (i.e. Gerund)?

What you have is the present continuous tense.....and it really should be "I eat oranges every day....."

Philip

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User_gary

#312981 Tue, 09 Jan 07 10:42 AM

Philip wrote:
User_gary wrote:

I am eating oranges everyday in the morning.

Here `eating' is adjective (i.e. past participle) or noun (i.e. Gerund)?

What you have is the present continuous tense.....and it really should be "I eat oranges every day....."

OK, Thank you.

Let consider this,

I like eating oranges.

I think here eating is present participle. But can we say it is an `adjetive'

User_gary

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Philip

#313106 Tue, 09 Jan 07 04:31 PM

User_gary wrote:
Philip wrote:
User_gary wrote:

I am eating oranges everyday in the morning.

Here `eating' is adjective (i.e. past participle) or noun (i.e. Gerund)?

What you have is the present continuous tense.....and it really should be "I eat oranges every day....."

OK, Thank you.

Let consider this,

I like eating oranges.

I think here eating is present participle. But can we say it is an `adjetive'

Here it is the gerund form of the verb, used as a noun. "Eating oranges" is a noun phrase serving as the direct object of the verb 'like'.

Philip

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KickingCat

#313234 Tue, 09 Jan 07 11:10 PM

I like eating oranges (there are two verbs in the sentence, but we're not discussing clause elements here)

shouldn't be the aspect progressive as well or am I wrong? The tense is present anyway...

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spinnaker

#313236 Tue, 09 Jan 07 11:21 PM

I'm not sure, but I thought the most time when you use like there's an -ing Form (like +ing)

I like going, playing, singing, dancing, reading, starting

but if you use would + like then the infinitive follows:

I'd like to go to ...

please correct me, if I'm wrong!

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MrPedantic

#313247 Tue, 09 Jan 07 11:46 PM

KickingCat wrote:

I like eating oranges (there are two verbs in the sentence, but we're not discussing clause elements here)

shouldn't be the aspect progressive as well or am I wrong? The tense is present anyway...

I would agree with Philip: the tense is present simple ("like"), while "eating" is a gerund (the object of "like").

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MrPedantic

#313248 Tue, 09 Jan 07 11:51 PM

Spinnaker wrote:
I'm not sure, but I thought the most time when you use like there's an -ing Form (like +ing)

I like going, playing, singing, dancing, reading, starting

but if you use would + like then the infinitive follows:

I'd like to go to ...

please correct me, if I'm wrong!

Hello Spin

Both forms are possible:

1. I like to go fishing.

2. I like going fishing.

To my ears, #1 presents fishing as a whole action, while #2 presents it as an action in progress. However, not all native speakers would agree.

3. I would like to go fishing.

#3 presents a wish or a hope.

All the best,

MrP

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User_gary

#313300 Wed, 10 Jan 07 04:35 AM

MrPedantic wrote:
KickingCat wrote:

I like eating oranges (there are two verbs in the sentence, but we're not discussing clause elements here)

shouldn't be the aspect progressive as well or am I wrong? The tense is present anyway...

I would agree with Philip: the tense is present simple ("like"), while "eating" is a gerund (the object of "like").

MrP