Question

my cat's favourite activity is sleeping, here sleeping is a gerund or participle ? explain. (will mark barinliest)​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The difference in the form of gerunds and infinitives is quite clear just from comparing the following lists:

• Gerunds: swimming, hoping, telling, eating, dreaming
• Infinitives: to swim, to hope, to tell, to eat, to dream

Their functions, however, overlap. Gerunds always function as nouns, but infinitives often also serve as nouns. Deciding which to use can be confusing in many situations, especially for people whose first language is not English.

Confusion between gerunds and infinitives occurs primarily in cases in which one or the other functions as the direct object in a sentence. In English, some verbs take gerunds as verbal direct objects exclusively while other verbs take only infinitives and still others can take either. Many such verbs are listed below, organized according to which kind of verbal direct object they take.