On Thursday 19 April, one of the world’s last remaining absolute monarchs addressed a crowd gathered at a small sports stadium in southern Africa.(The cost of changing a country's name) "Gather" can be either transitive or intransitive when it means "come together". I was wondering if I can use both the present participle and the past participle to modify a noun. For example in the sentence mentioned above, can I use "gathering" instead of "gathered"? Thank you.
Either would be grammatical in that sentence, but they don't mean the same thing. 'Gathered' is a past participle and 'gathering' is a present participle.
Hello. gathered- the crowd has already gathered by the time he begins to speak gathering- the crowd is in the process of gathering while he speaks Is that clear?
