By Gerunds, Intonations

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

I was imagining them as written. I was imagining all of them without any particular voice stress. In spoken form, if you stress the word that goes with only, you can put the only just about anywhere. I think the default is to feel the stress on the last element of the sentence, however, so...

1.I have a fishing rod. 2.I read an interesting book. Is {in (1)} fishing a gerund or a participle in 1? OR "In 1, is fishing a ..." JTT: The placement of 'in 1' is unnatural, Hanuman. In (2), interesting is a participle. Am I right? Then why ISN'T "fishing" in (1) a participle....