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| Jul 24, 2016 at 18:48 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @AlirezaN. You got it. Participles are forms which act simultaneously as verbs and adjectives, a gerund is a form which acts simultaneously as a verb and a noun. Into X is a preposition phrase which acts as the complement to dug. | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 18:43 | comment | added | Anfi | So, I can see it in this way: "The natterjack toad passes the winter dug deep into" . moreover, "Dug into" is a adjective. Am I right? And, in this sentence, "The natterjack toad passes the winter by digging deep into.", digging is gerund (and noun). Right? (I've gotten the semantic difference between these two.) | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 17:14 | vote | accept | Anfi | ||
| Jul 24, 2016 at 16:18 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |