What word refers to a verb form which functions as a noun, ending in –ing?
-ing -ing -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". 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. The gerund (noun) use comes from Middle English "-ing", which is from Old English "-ing", "-ung" (suffixes
Compound verb Compound verb In linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a "light verb" or "vector", which carries any inflections, indicating tense, mood, or aspect, but provides only fine shades of meaning. The other, "primary", component is a verb or noun which carries most of the semantics of the compound, and determines its arguments. It is usually in either base or [in Verb + Verb compounds] "conjunctive participial" form. A compound verb is also called a "complex predicate" because the semantics, as formally modeled by