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Identify each italicized word as gerund or participle. Wishing to remain anonymous, he asked the florist to deliver the flowers to the orphanage.

Identify each italicized word as gerund or participle. Wishing to remain anonymous, he asked the florist to deliver the flowers to the orphanage.
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Identify each italicized word as gerund or participle.

Wishing to remain anonymous, he asked the florist to deliver the flowers to the orphanage.

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The word wishing is used as a participle in this case. Although gerunds and participles look the same, they are used in different senses - gerunds generally denote nouns, whereas participles have more of an adverbial meaning.
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