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A. Identify the participles and the gerunds in these sentences.
1. I like walking in the rain.
2. Having heard the car, the mountain goat scampered away.
3. Children love building sandcastles in the sand and decorating them.
4. The residents, having had enough, decided to complain to the local authorities.
5. The gathering clouds were dark
and thundery.
A gerund acts Keep in и
6. All of a sudden, the trekkers were faced
as a noun, whereas Mind
a present participle
with a sparkling stream full of fish.
acts as an adjective or a verb.
7. The students succeeded in convincing the
community to conserve parks and playgrounds.
8. When I was a child, I did not like sleeping in the afternoons.
9. Gardening and caring for plants is my passion.
10. Reading was his favourite activity. He read whatever he could.
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green underlined are gerunds
red under lined participles
8.sleeping is (gerunds)
9.gardening and caring (participles)
10.reading (participles)
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1.walking
2.having
3.building
4.having
5.gathering
6.sparkling
7.convincing
8.sleeping
9.gardening
10.reading
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