The adjective. Types of adj. Degrees of comparison

The GERUND performs the functions of all the types of notional sentence-parts: the subject, the object, the predicative, the attribute, the adverbial modifier.One of the specific GERUND patterns is its combination with the noun in the possessive case or its possessive pronominal equivalent expressing the subject of the action. The gerundial construction is used in cases when the subject of the gerundial process differs from the subject of the governing sentence-situation, i.e. when the gerundial sentence-part has its own, separate subject (e.g. Powell’s being rude like that was disgusting).
The possessive with the GERUND displays one of the distinctive categorial properties of the GERUND as such, establishing it in the English lexemic system as the form of the verb with nounal characteristics. From the point of view of the inner semantic relations, this combination is of a verbal type, while form the point of view of the formal categorial features, this combination is of nounal type.
Reconstruction: I can’t stand his criticizing artistic works that are beyond his competence
-> verbal – He is criticizing artistic works.а nounal – His criticism of artistic works.
The PARTICIPLE I is the non-finite form of the verb which combines the properties of the verb with those of the adjective and adverb, serving as the qualifying-processual name. In its form the PARTICIPLE I is wholly homonymous with the GERUND, ending in the suffix –ing and distinguishing the same grammatical categories of retrospective coordination and voice.
Like all the verbids, the PRESENT PARTICIPLE has no categorial time distinctions, and the attribute “present” in its conventional name is not immediately explanatory.
Since the PARTICIPLE I possesses some traits of adjective and adverb, the present participle is not only dual, but triple by its lexico-grammatical properties, which is displayed in its combinability, as well as in its syntactic functions.

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