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"Loving" in that context is an adjective. Lots of words that end in -ing are adjectives, and -ing-participles are commonly used as adjectives. Think of it this way: anything you can put between a determiner string (e.g. "all of the first three") and a noun is an adjective in that context. Many words ending in -ing that might otherwise be part of finite verbs in clauses, or be part of participle or gerund phrases will fit in that slot.
Seth Katz
Bradley University
Peoria, IL
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of crg
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Subject: Re: Go camping
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
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:15 PM
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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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