Search results for 'tag:Gerunds tag:Present continuous' matching tags 'Gerunds' and 'Present continuous'

Re: intricate

AlpheccaStars — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:01:37 GMT

Neither of your answers fit, but here is a correctly finished sentence with most of the phrases and words:

.Despite his fondness for writing involved stories in which dying women are threatening evil villans, his appealing children's stories are his staples.

Despite his fondness for writing (gerund, object of preposition "for") involved (past participle, adjective) stories in which dying (present participle, adjective) women (here you need a verb, because you have started a depedent clause "in which") are threatening evil villains, his appealing (present participle, adjective) children's stories are his staples.

Despite his fondness for writing involved stories in which dying women are threatening evil villans, his appealing children's stories are his staples.

2. The decline in science education during the period had two causes: less funding for scientific research with a decrease in jobs related to space and defense.
The italics is related to, but why it is not "relating to"? >> "Relating to" could also be used in this particular situation

Participles as adjectives:

The present participle has the sense of present continuous time and active mood,. i.e - the crying baby, the dying woman, the coming elections, the leaning wall, the breaking news, the approaching train,the running motor, the rushing river, the looming disaster, the threatening clouds, the jumping dog

The past participle is completed time and passive mood: the closed door, the completed project, the finished sentence, the painted wall, the chanted verse, the haunted house, the written word.

Re: The Continuous tense

Tanit — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:52:57 GMT

Anonymous
Is it a rule that the auxiliary, the past participle and the main verb are immediately after one another with no other words inbetween?

No, such a rule does not exist.

Anonymous
For example: "Have you ever had the feeling that you're being followed?"
This sentence has both "have" and "had" and two continuous verbs in it ("feeling" and "being"), but is it neither Present Perfect Continuous nor Past Perfect Continuous?

Your sentence is in the present perfect. "Have you ever had ..."
"the feeling" is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not saying they are perfect synonym for "feeling" -- it's just to demonstrate that you can have a noun there, and to show you that "feeling" is not acting as a verb in your sentence). Another clue to understand its function is that it's preceded by the article "the".
"that you're being followed" this is a "that-clause" which describes what sort of "feeling" we are talking about. "being" here has to be seen together with "are" and "followed": "are being followed" is present continuous, passive.

Re: Teaching the Present Continuous

ayvied — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:55:46 GMT

when i teach the Present Continuous tense (elemenentary level) I usually ue these easy steps:

1. Introduce/ review the Verb BE, in it's different forms..AM, IS, ARE ( Present Tense)

2. Introduce/revi Personal Pronouns, I , HE, SHE, IT, WE, YOU, THEY.

3. Explain/expound the relationship of these two (the verb BE and the Personal Pronouns) when used in a sentence and give examples;
                I -       AM                       HE, SHE, IT - IS
                YOU   - ARE
                 WE    - ARE
                 THEY - ARE

Example:  HE IS dancing.

4. Introduce/review Verbs...ask for examples e.g   dance,

5.Explain how to from the Present Participle:Participles = VERB+ ING
example : dance+ ing= dancing (explain that the E in danceshould be dropped)

4. Now, you are ready to present your lesson on PRESENT CONTINUOUS: Define
    PRESENT CONTINUOUS = Verb BE + VERB+ ING (present participle)

example: He IS DANCING.

I hope this will help.

Re: ING

CalifJim — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:54:58 GMT

For gerunds and participles, see Post:437399.

Present continuous and present progressive are two names for the same thing: the tense made by combining a form of to be followed by an -ing form of the verb, e.g., are going, were doing, have been seeing, etc.

CJ

Re: ING

Kooyeen — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:26:24 GMT

Hi,

I have been to China twice. - Past Participle. Used in several tenses, like the present perfect. Sometimes used as an adjective.

Studying history is a good way to waste your time. - Gerund. A verb used as a noun.

Call me later, I'm busy. I am burning a couple of grammar books. - Present continuous (also called present progressive) . Used to say what someone is doing now. It is used in other ways too, for example as a future tense.

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Anonymous — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:17:13 GMT

Hi, everybody I have a few questions.

What's the difference between: gerund, past participle, present continuous and present progressive? Can you make me an example of each? How do I recognize them?, to what question do they answer?

Re: Gerunds with the verb (to) be

Charlie_boy — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:40:50 GMT

Cool Breeze wrote:
1) Leaving taps on and using too much water is very bad for the environment. (Easy, 2 gerunds right?) Right.

2) Everyone should be recycling rubbish. Should is a modal auxiliary or a defective auxiliary as these verbs are also called. It is always followed by an infinitive. Be recycling is a present continuous infinitive, and the recycling part is a present participle, not a gerund.

a) Anyone who uses private transport when they could be taking the train is wasting energy. The same grammatically as the one above; taking is a present participle, not a gerund.

The defective auxiliaries are: can, could; shall, should; will, would; may, might; must and ought. In addition, need and dare are sometimes used grammatically in the same way as these auxiliaries.

Cheers
CB

Now that's an excellent help.

(I'm the original poster by the way)

I do prefer the 'Balls to Gerunds and Participles' school of thought but I couldn't find reference to an in depth explanation. Almost everyone online has bastardised each others work and I feel that most wouldn't know the true meaning.

Excellent reply. Top class.

Thanks a lot

Re: Gerunds with the verb (to) be

Cool Breeze — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:59:35 GMT

1) Leaving taps on and using too much water is very bad for the environment. (Easy, 2 gerunds right?) Right.

2) Everyone should be recycling rubbish. Should is a modal auxiliary or a defective auxiliary as these verbs are also called. It is always followed by an infinitive. Be recycling is a present continuous infinitive, and the recycling part is a present participle, not a gerund.

a) Anyone who uses private transport when they could be taking the train is wasting energy. The same grammatically as the one above; taking is a present participle, not a gerund.

The defective auxiliaries are: can, could; shall, should; will, would; may, might; must and ought. In addition, need and dare are sometimes used grammatically in the same way as these auxiliaries.

Cheers
CB

Re: [is, am, are] + Past Participle

CalifJim — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:18:32 GMT

Simple present. They all form a logical pattern. You are wrong about present perfect, by the way.

am, is, are + -ing Present continuous
was, were + -ing Past continuous

am, is, are + anything else Simple present
was, were + anything else Simple past

has, have + been + -ing Present perfect continuous
had + been + -ing Past perfect continuous

has, have + -en Present perfect
had + -en Past perfect

-ing is a symbolic way of indicating "present participle" (or "gerund" if you like that term better)
-en indicates "past participle" (even if the ending is something else like -ed)

CJ

Re: being asked

Yankee — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:17:20 GMT

Hi CS
"The point is that the people being asked have no idea whether they want it or not."

'Being' is not a gerund in the original sentence.

To me the sentence means that someone is currently asking people questions about whether they want something or not, and these people are answering that they do not know whether they want it or not. ('is asking' = present continuous)

The sentence might also be interpreted as present perfect continuous. In this case, there would not really be much difference in the meaning. The activity would still be current. The present perfect continuous can be used to talk about an activity that began in the past and has coninued up to now. When you use the present perfect continuous, the activity will either continue into the future, or if it has just ended, it has a very direct effect on the present (now).

Someone has been asking people questions. (present perfect continuous, active)
People have been being asked questions. (present perfect continuous, passive)

Here is the original sentence with a present perfect continuous interpretation:
"The point is that the people (who have been) being asked have no idea whether they want it or not."