When we say 'his being' we are using 'his' as a possessive pronoun. This is tantamount to saying Bob's doing... (An apostrophe here indicates possessive). And whenever one uses such a construction, although one should try to

(1) He does nothing except reading. The gerund is not acceptable because of the verb "do." Changing the tense will not make it acceptable. A gerund requires a sentence like: He was not interested in anything except (in) reading, (2) He

What is popular? Oversizing of accessories. Here, the subject is "Oversizing" and not "accessories", so it should read as "Oversizing of accessories, in general, is popular now." In sentences like these, the

gerund is ending with -ing It is usually used with a continuous sense e.g. I am writing to you now. I don't agree with your gerund example, Wmoynan. In my opinion, you have not provided an example of a gerund. 1. I am writing to you now. In

gerund is ending with -ing It is usually used with a continuous sense e.g. I am writing to you now. (Past) participle is what I assume you meant: this is the past form of the verb to be used with past tense forms which require two verbs e.g.

sir, please explain the difference between gerund and participle

the noun of proactive is "proaction" or, I guess you could use the gerund of the be verb and say "being proactive"

I´m afraid it IS wrong. "Spend time" can only be used in verb + gerund constructions or with further adverbial phrases. It´s a rule (it may change in the future, but for the moment, it sounds very wrong to a native ear any other way). It

Yes, most verbs will form a gerund by adding -ing , but some will be rather useless, I suspect. Also, we seldom do it with stems that already have a perfectly good noun, nor do we do it where we have common phrases already to hand, as is the case,

I don't really see any difference in intent (and both verbs are OK). It is just the speaker's mental perspective: in the first he is viewing the act from the time of his statement; in the second, he is viewing the act from the time of its occurrence.