<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> - 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 . </P> <P> The Modern English - ing ending, which is used to form both gerunds and present participles of verbs (i.e. in noun and adjective uses), derives from two different historical suffixes . </P>

What is it called when a word ends in ing