-ing
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- Etymology and pronunciation
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- Distinction between gerunds and present participles
- Distinction between verbal and deverbal uses
- ''-ing'' words in other languages
- Other meanings of the suffix
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-ing is a suffix used to make one of the inflected forms of English verbs. This verb form is used as a present participle, as a gerund, and sometimes as an independent noun or adjective. The suffix is also found in certain words like morning and ceiling, and in names such as Browning.
==Etymology and pronunciation== The Modern English -ing ending, which is used to form both gerunds and present participles of verbs (i.e. in noun and adjective uses), derives from two different historical suffixes.
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