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 ...

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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 ...

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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.