Question

Reading newspaper, one can enrich his knowledge. Determine the parts of speech of the word "reading".​

Answer 1

Answer:

Reading - noun

Explanation:

because here reading is refer as noun not as 4th form of verb

Answer 2

reading- adjective

Explanation:

Very similar to gerunds are participles. Participles are words created from verbs that are then used as adjectives to modify nouns in a sentence. They can also be used as introductions to adverbial phrases. There are present and past participles. Present participles always end in -ing and correlate to events taking place in the current tense. The past participle can be either regular or irregular and refers to events that have already happened. Differentiating between participles and gerunds can be a little tricky sometimes because participles can actually function as gerunds. For our purposes today, we’re going to look at some rather straightforward examples.

When using a participle as an adjective, you might come across a sentence like this:

The browning fruit should be put outside for composting.

Browning is a present participle (noted by the -ing ending) that is modifying the noun fruit.

I spent the whole day studying math.

In this sentence, studying is a present participle that is working as the beginning of an adverbial phrase in the sentence. The phrase studying math is modifying the verb spent. How did I spend the whole day? Studying mat