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English: Ing or Ed: (Present Participle) Swimming Is Gerund Here

- The document discusses gerunds (-ing verbs) and present participles, noting that while they end in -ing, they are not the same grammatical form. - It provides examples of verbs used as gerunds and present participles. - It also discusses past participles (-ed verbs) and how verbs can be used as adjectives in a past participle form. - The document explains active and passive voice, using examples to illustrate how the subject and object are changed between the two structures. It notes how passive voice is commonly used.

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English: Ing or Ed: (Present Participle) Swimming Is Gerund Here

- The document discusses gerunds (-ing verbs) and present participles, noting that while they end in -ing, they are not the same grammatical form. - It provides examples of verbs used as gerunds and present participles. - It also discusses past participles (-ed verbs) and how verbs can be used as adjectives in a past participle form. - The document explains active and passive voice, using examples to illustrate how the subject and object are changed between the two structures. It notes how passive voice is commonly used.

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English: ~ing or ~ed

He swims every day. Gerunds (-ing)


They swam last night. When a verb ends in -ing, it may
be a gerund or a present
He is swimming now. participle. It is important to
(present participle) understand that they are not the
I like swimming. same.
(swimming is gerund here)

He eats breakfast at 10am I have a boring English


every morning. teacher.
We ate Laksa this morning. Is “boring” here a “gerund”
The are eating now or present participle?
(preset participle)
They like eating.
(eating is gerund here)
More ~ed and ~ing
He is interested in Basketball is an
playing basketball. interesting game.

Make a sentence with Make a sentence with


“fascinated” “fascinating”
When verb becomes adjective:
He broke the This is a broken
glass. glass.(break->broke-
>broken)

This is a frozen
The meat is meat.
frozen to prevent So when verbs become
it from going off. objective, they are in past
participle form.

Example 1: Example 2:
More on ~ed
Passive vs Active
Active voice (SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT )

The cat caught a mouse.

The police chased the suspect.

A tornado devastated the town.

Passive voice (OBJECT + be/get + PAST PARTICIPLE (+ AGENT)

The mouse WAS caught (by the cat).

The suspect GOT chased (by the police).

The town WAS devastated (by the tornado).


Examples on selection of active
and passive voice
The active voice is used in most conversational situations. The passive
voice is used in explanations, such as this one, where the object (“the
passive voice”) is more important than the people who use it. The passive
voice is also used a lot in reporting where the agent is unknown,
unimportant or purposely kept secret. For example, the following
sentences have no agent:

“Bananas are grown in Ecuador.” (The object, “bananas,” is more


important than who grows the bananas. We probably don't know who
grows the bananas anyway.)

“The diamond was stolen at 4:30a.m.” (We don't know who stole the
diamond, so no agent can be included. Even if we did know, the sentence
might still be more common in the passive because the fact that a
diamond was stolen may be more important than who did it.)As stated
above, “get” is sometimes used in conjunction with the past participle
when forming the simple passive voice. Using “get” is a more casual way
of making the passive voice. “Get” tends to emphasize the feelings of the
speaker as well as process, whereas “be” emphasizes neutrality and state
of being. “Get” doesn't take an agent as often as “be” does.

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