Identify whether the following is a participle or gerund: He likes playing in the field.
They were swimming in the sea.
The red team was winning the game.
Gaming is a fun activity.
Some people liked how we went travelling
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The weatherman warned to expect storms to occur this afternoon. is thtis sentence a verb noun adjective or adverb

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.