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In English the grammatical term gerund is used only for an -ING form which is employed as a noun. When an -ING form is used as an adjective or as a component of progressive verb construction it is...

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Gerund & participle: "She stormed out, 'slamming' the door so hard that the...

She stormed out, slamming the door so hard that the mirror fell off the wall.As fa as I know, in Italian language slamming functions as a gerund there, but, very often—as it could be the case...

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