Is farting a verb

Answer 1

Not by itself it isn't. If it had a helping verb (like is or another form of the verb to be), it would be part of a verb. For example, we could say something like this: James is farting his life away. In such a sentence, the verb is "is farting." When the word farting stands alone, it is what we call a verbal, a word made from a verb but functioning as some other part of speech. It might be a gerund, a verbal functioning as a noun, or it might be a present participle, a verbal functioning as an adjective. Here is an example of farting as a gerund, in this case a noun serving as the subject of the sentence: Farting is such fun that I just cannot resist it. Here is an example of farting used as a present participle: Let farting dogs lie. In this sentence farting describes the noun dog and serves as an adjective.