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Bookmark or Share- What's the difference between a gerund and a participle?A gerund is a form of a verb used as a noun, whereas a participle is a form of verb used as an adjective or as a verb in conjunction with an auxiliary verb.
- particle vs preposition? How to know the difference?One test is to use a pronoun for the object. If the order verb object particle is acceptable, then the particle is an adverb, not a preposition. If the order verb particle object is acceptable, then the particle is a preposition. 1a. Stop picking on him. 1b. *Stop picking him on. 2a. *Stop leading on him. 2b. Stop leading him on.
- Is it "quit" or "quitted"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeWhat is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted?
- verbs - The past participle of "split": "split" or "splitted ...I have just written a question in the PPCG site, and now that I read it again I have just noticed that I have just written "split" and "splitted" randomly as the past participle of "to split": C...
- How many different parts of speech can the f-word be used as?In an "interesting" thread of comments we began to look at the word fuck in several different uses. Most of them were interjections and verb uses as would be expected. But, perhaps dialectally, th...
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