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In derived nominals the –ing affix turns the verb into a noun and the unit behaves like a noun syntactically. In gerunds the –ing element turns the verb into a unit that has the external distribution of a nominal but the internal structure of it retains verbal properties. With derived nominals the complement it takes is case-marked by the preposition of while in gerunds no of-insertion is necessary, the complement of the gerund is case-marked in the ordinary fashion verbs case-mark their complement DP. Derived nominals can be pluralised and used with determiners while gerunds cannot be pluralised and only tolerate what looks like a possessive determiner.