Aren't these gerunds acting as adjectives in the same way nouns act as adjectives?
   
  Scott Woods

Martha Kolln <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Nancy,

Here are some others: dining room, reading room, drinking fountain, 
fishing pole, diving board.
These are perhaps prepositional phrases that have lost their 
prepositions: room for dining, fountain for drinking, process of 
voting, etc.

Martha




>How does the word "voting" function in the clause "I participate in the
>voting process every four years"?
>
>My first thought was that it is a participle. "Voting" appears to be a
>verb acting like an adjective, modifying "process." But the subject of a
>participle is the word it modifies, and "process" is not the subject
>of "voting." 
>
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>Thanks,
>Nancy
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