How do I overcome the disappointment and be happy?
If this stands by itself “Trying” a gerund or participle, I try a participle or a gerund with some specific word or phrase. What are some good ideas that people should follow when talking about mindfulness? Is it possible to have gerund ( Trying to be happy is always good) but I want to know if it being a participle where the agent is omitted is also possible? If it was a progressive verb tense, what would you
do?
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” person b “trying to be funny” is
a short answer which is still sufficient to convey the intended meaning. Illegal. Maybe I am completely mistaken here and it probably doesn’t even matter if it’s a gerund or participle but I like to truly understand the things I see and say so I hope someone can make sense of this.
Present participles are formed from verbs. They are usually used to form verb tenses. From this case they can be used with an auxiliary to form the present continuous tense: “We are dancing” or used as an adjective: “My daughter bought some dancing shoes”. With any shoes, the present participle is used to describe the type of shoes, the shoes themselves are not dancing. In fact, this type of participial is commonly called a participial adjective.
When a participle is used as a noun, it is called a gerund. What are the best forms of exercise for girl to learn dancing? “When
a participle is used as a subject in a sentence, it is acting like a noun.
Trying to make head or tails of this newfangled smartphone is crazy
It implies that anyone tries to understand how to use that smartphone will fail in the process.
The verb in the next example is in the present participle, the subject is she She
is trying to figure out a problem For
more details on the gerund see Wikipedia.
To answer the question, I want to know if it being a participle where the agent is omitted is also possible.
Person A “What are you doing?” Person
B “(I am) trying to be funny” In
this context, it’s clear that present participle is being used as a verb.
