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A gerund is a noun, and is not the same as a present participle, even though both are spelled the same.

A present participle is that form of any verb which ends in -ing, such as in I am swimming in the river; Mary will be running in a race at this time tomorrow. These tenses are called progressive tenses, because the action at the time spoken of is in progress and has not yet ended.

The present perfect tense does not use the present participle in the verb; it uses the past participle because the action spoken of that began in the past has been completed as of the present time or continues into the present.

Example: The children have sung three songs. They began singing in the recent past and finished just now, in the present. The past participle is sung. I sing now; I sang yesterday; I have sung in the past, but that action is now complete, and that completed action is still true now in the present.

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