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  PRESENT PARTICIPLE versus GERUND The origin of both present participle and gerund is VERB words. And the physical constructional structure of both present participle and gerund is: VERB + ing Involving present participle and gerund, there exists a confusion and an incorrect idea, as follows: CONFUSION Because the origin and structural pattern of both present participle and gerund are the same, it often creates confusion about identifying which ones are present participle and which are gerund. INCORRECT IDEA Many grammarians define that the verb-ing words as gerund where they function like noun, in that, they define that the verb-ing words are gerund “ONLY where” they function like a NOUN, or where they function like “NOUN ONLY”. The incorrectness in this definition is not that verb-ing words are gerund where they function like noun. But the incorrectness is in the position limiting the function to “noun ONLY”. The correct definition is: The verb-ing words are gerund where they functi