Question

Verbals ending in -ing and used only as nouns are _____.


participles
infinitives
gerunds
inflections

Answer 1

gerunds

Answer 2

Reason being is because infinitives have the word to in front like...
"to ride"
Participle is a verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing or -ed. The term verbal indicates that a participle, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being. However, since they function as adjectives, participles modify nouns or pronouns. There are two types of participles: present participles and past participles. Present participles end in -ing. Past participles end in -ed, -en, -d, -t, -n, or -ne as in the words asked, eaten, saved, dealt, seen, and gone.
participles is a