Speaking of participles:

Please help me with this?

I've always thought of "loving" as a participle as in "She is a loving
mother."

(I guess it could function as a gerund also as in "The loving was good!"

But I thought that participles cannot take qualifiers--very, rather, quite,
etc.

"Loving," however, can take a qualifier.

My question: Is "loving" a participle?

Christen in Baltimore

-----Original Message-----
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Subject: Re: Go camping

Hi Michael,

I call it an adverbial participle.

Martha



>  Could anyone offer help on parsing "go camping" in "We go camping every
>summer."Does camping modify go?  Could it be its direct object?  I
>suppose it has to do with how one analyzes "go."
>

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