Gerund and Present Participle

Well, the gerund is a noun made out of the present participle of the verb, to put it briefly.

PP: "I am baking the bread."
Gerund: "I am doing the baking."
PP: "I feel good when I'm running."
Gerund: "Running makes me feel good."
PP: "If the boss catches me loafing, I'm out if a job."
Gerund: "Loafing is a good way to get fired."

And with that last... I had better get to work :)

"Of," not "if."

right as you are, how can you help the junior middle school students make sense of it? and there are other differences, such as in "a walking man" and "a walking stick". Hope to get your insightful ideas on how to make the students grasp this easily.

Oh, well. I think that most kids grasp in a general sense that a verb is an "action word," an adjective is a "describing word," and a noun is a "person, place, or thing."

So a gerund could be explained in very basic terms as a verb ending in "ing" that takes the place of a noun (but you need to check to make sure it is not taking the place of an adjective becuase that is something else). Any other cases (I can't think of any offhand) where the verb form doen't end in "ing" can be treated as exceptions that don't violate the underlying rule.

Quirk in his A Comprehensive Grammar of English Dictionary objects the distinction between gerund and present participle. For reasons of his objection, you can check in his dictionary. but i myself consider it useful, though not necessarily necessary, to cling to this distinction, for it can make us more clear. and the differences do exist in "he is interesting" and "he is interesting us"; "he is washing" and "his job is washing"; "a sleeping boy" and "a sleeping bag". As a matter of fact, i have just graduated from a normal university in China and is trying to write a handbook for my students, hoping that it will facilitate their understanding of the English grammar in a pleasant and clear way. Thank you very much for your instructions. and any further help will be heartfeltly appreciated.

It is A Comprehensive Grammar of English Language

I think Quirk would also stress the importance of capitalising the word "I".

Honestly, you pretend to be educated and yet you type like a five-year-old.

Ronnie, you pretend to be a free citizen of a civilized country and yet your manners are those of a barbarian. Why, pray tell?

hi,
i`m ruslan
i`m trying learn english, and everything is ok, exept Gerund and Participle 1. What a difrence benween them?
Please explain me
Thx

I want to know diffrence between present participle &gerund

I WANT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GERUND AND PARTICIPLE

Further discussion of the difference between gerund and participle may be found here:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gerund.html