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What (who) is -ing - definition
VERB ENDING, FORMING ONGOING PROCESSES (PROGRESSIVE) AND GERUNDS
Gerund-participle
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-ing
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¦ suffix
1. denoting a verbal action, activity, or result: building.
2. denoting material used for or associated with a process: piping.
3. forming the gerund of verbs (such as painting as in I love painting).
Origin
OE -ung, -ing, of Gmc origin.
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-ing2
¦ suffix
1. forming the present participle of verbs: calling.
2. forming adjectives from nouns: hulking.
Origin
ME: alt. of earlier -ende, later -inde.
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-ing3
¦ suffix a thing belonging to or having the quality of: farthing.
Origin
OE, of Gmc origin.
-ing
·- A suffix used to from present participles; as, singing, playing.
II. -ing ·- A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing.
III. -ing ·- A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing.
-ing
1.
-ing is added to verbs to form present participles. Present participles are used with auxiliary verbs to make continuous tenses. They are also used like adjectives, describing a person or thing as doing something.
He was walking along the street...
Children sit round small tables, talking to each other...
It was worth it to see all those smiling faces.
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2.
-ing is added to verbs to form uncount nouns referring to activities.
Gardening is very popular in Britain...
This campaign is one of the most successful in the history of advertising.
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Wikipedia
-ing
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-ing is a suffix used to make one of the inflected forms of English verbs. This verb form is used as a present participle, as a gerund, and sometimes as an independent noun or adjective. The suffix is also found in certain words like morning and ceiling, and in names such as Browning.
Examples of use of -ing
1. There does seem something authentically Blairite about the stunted formulation f××××ing Welsh (not the f×××ing Welsh, or f×××ing Welsh sheepsnoggers), reminiscent of that semi–literate election slogan, Forward, not ××××ing back.
2. I‘ve been working all ××××ing day and I need to get to my ××××ing dressing room." Scroll down for more...
3. In recent months there has been frenzied to–ing and fro–ing between lawyers for both sides.
4. " Wayne was staggering round telling everyone who wanted to listen ‘I f×××ing love Coleen, she looks f×××ing amazing.
5. He then said, You dont f×××ing worry me, boy, and you dont f×××ing frighten me, boyo.