Do englishmen percept -ing form in "continuous" as participle, or don't?
And the same is about "perfect" and -ed forms. I'd like to take answer from everybody, but native speakers especially.I know that there are different meanings of -ing, but what about this particular case. Do englishmen percept the phrase "He is going" as Russian "Он есть идущий" and so on?
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If it's written as such in your textbook, then yes.
The small confusion here lies in the fact that "-ing" comes from two different sources:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-ing
As for -ed forms, we recognise them as past participles (and not the simple past form) depending on how they are used in the sentence (ie. the presence of auxiliary verbs be/have).
May I ask why you asked this question? :)
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