the present continuous tense vs. gerunds

This video shows the differences between verbs in the present continuous tense and words that function as nouns, which are called "gerunds."
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Hi Paul, How you doin' ?. Ok Paul, let me see if I got it straight, It means that: - When the verb with the "ING" form functions as a subject we can call it "a gerund". AND. - When the verb with the "ING" form says that we're doing something at the moment we're speaking, it's just called "the present continuos or progressive tense". Is that right Paul ?. Thank you so much in advance for the answer and the video Paul. 👍.

[@Learnamericanenglishonline]

You got it! But I think the most important thing is to recognize that a word with an "ing" ending is not always the verb. There are also "ing" words that function as adjectives. In that case, they really aren't gerunds, but it doesn't matter too much what you call them as long as you know how to use them properly.

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Hi teacher Paul. At 6:20 you've said "It's fun making videos." I've heard that we could use gerunds after some verbs, after prepositions, after combination of a verb and preposition, after adjective + preposition, but I've never heard that you could use gerund after adjective like in your case above. Would you mind kind of considering to make a short video/lesson on this topic, please?

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