User_gary  +  336246 Tue, 06 Mar 07 08:05 AM I saw a girl carrying a basket of flowes. Here the word `carrying' is past participle or gerund? I think Gerund. Am I right? Please tell me. User_gary Joined on Fri, Jan 5 2007 Senior Member 2,571 Honesty is the best policy Gerunds

	pieanne  +  336327 Tue, 06 Mar 07 03:00 PM I don't think it's either. I'd say it's a present participle pieanne Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005 South of France ...But I'm Belgian! Veteran Member 7,517 I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

	Cool Breeze  +  336330 Tue, 06 Mar 07 03:03 PM "I saw a girl carrying a basket of flowers." Carrying is a present participle in your sentence. CB Cool Breeze Joined on Fri, Apr 7 2006 Senior Member 3,978 "I hope you'll all live to be 150 years old - and the last voice you hear is mine!" Frank Sinatra on stage in Oslo, Norway, 28 September 1991 Gerunds

	Cool Breeze  +  336331 Tue, 06 Mar 07 03:04 PM Good timing, pieanne! CB Cool Breeze

	User_gary  +  336337 Tue, 06 Mar 07 03:12 PM  Cool Breeze wrote: "I saw a girl carrying a basket of flowers." Carrying is a present participle in your sentence. CB Thank you. Since present participle is adjective, I think it modifies the noun (girl). Am I right? User_gary Nouns, Gerunds

	pieanne  +  336340 Tue, 06 Mar 07 03:14 PM It's "I saw a girl (who was) carrying ..." pieanne

	pieanne  +  336342 Tue, 06 Mar 07 03:15 PM  Cool Breeze wrote: Good timing, pieanne! CB Cheers!  pieanne

	Cool Breeze  +  336343 Tue, 06 Mar 07 03:18 PM  User_gary wrote: Since present participle is adjective, I think it modifies the noun (girl). Am I right? There are different ways to look at this. I regard carrying as a present participle used as a relative clause equivalent in your sentence. In other words, it could read: I saw a girl who/that was carrying flowers. The subject (who or that) and was have been omitted. In some contexts the sentence could actually be even: I saw a girl who/that carried flowers. CB Cool Breeze Nouns, Regards, Clauses, Gerunds