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 [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martha Kolln Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:15 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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." > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/