Stalking the elusive present participle Playing with English grammar is fun until you call a word a gerund when it isn’t. By Neil Steinberg Jan 13, 2022, 8:30am PDT ...

Beware, though, that not every “-ing” word is a gerund. Some are merely the present participle of the verb, as in “We are happy with the woman who is knitting our baby’s booties.” (The participial ...

Meticulous: ever-scrupulous about minute details, very careful, accurate. This definition of the word is one that I thought correct, for it comes from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current ...

What Warren Clements writes on the gerund and its difference from the present participle is clear and illuminating (In Case You Missed The Class On Gerunds - Review, June 16).

Some experts have called this the “fused participle” and consider it inferior to the standard possessive-with-gerund structure. But it’s widely accepted as an idiom.

A gerund is a verbal form that looks like a participle but functions as a noun. For example: "Drinking gin on an empty stomach is really stupid." Ordinarily, gerunds are as tame as gerbils, but ...