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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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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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