Gerund ending in -ings?

Examples:

• Savings
• Shavings
• Drippings

Are these gerunds?

I found some resources (below) that don't seem to provide definitive answers.

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• Page 320

Solution 1:

This is so confusing, that if I placed itmes in the wrong category, please correct it for me!

Three types of English words ending with "ing":

• present participle
• gerund
• verbal noun

Present participles

1. can be used as adjectives.

   • Running dogs don't die.
   • Could you get your fucking feet off my couch?
   • The painting professionals are painting the house.

2. are present activities that can describe the state of perpetrator of the activity

   • They are running
   • The cows are coming home
   • The gravy is dripping in the oven.
   • She is fucking his feet on the couch.
   • The painting professionals are painting the house.
   • She was painting Mona Lisa.

Gerunds

1. They are a noun form. They are not used as adjectives.

   • She is very good at fucking.
   • They enjoy smoking.
   • I enjoy swimming and painting.

2. They can be transitive to a direct object. But they are non-prepositional to the object.

   • She is very good at fucking people's feet off the couch.
   • They like painting trees.
   • Painting professionals like painting professionals. = Painting professionals like to paint professionals.
   • They enjoy smoking weed.
   • Mrs Gujeratnam's hosting a party is exciting her students.
   • She enjoys painting Mona Lisa.

3. They can be a possession of the perpetrator.

   • I appreciate your walking my dog.
   • He loves her fucking his feet.
   • The painting professionals' painting professionals are painting professionals off the street.
   • Mrs Gujeratnam's hosting a party is exciting her students.
   • Her swimming is very versatile.
   • Her painting Mona Lisa is her enjoying life.

Verbal nouns

They are

1. finalized derivatives of gerunds and participles.

   • The sold me a fake painting.
   • Please put the bowl of gravy drippings in the freezer.
   • The "Fucking" is a pornographic movie.
   • Look at all your shavings in the sink. What a mess!
   • I have $3 millions in my bank savings.
   • The gasket is shielded by a steel housing.

2. Cannot be transitive to a direct object, but requires a preposition

   • Da Vinci's painting of Mona Lisa is worth half a billion dollars.
   • The gasket is shielded by a steel housing compartment.

3. They are usable as adjectives but only due to their finalized verbal nouns.

   • The dripping pan in the oven is rusty.
   • The swimming pool is open to public.
   • I have $3 million in my savings bank account.

Gerunds again

There are two modes of gerunds:

1. adverbial gerunds - modifiable by adverbs.
   • Their rowing quickly is exciting the crowd.
2. adjectival gerunds - modifiable by adjectives.
   • Their quick running saved the day and won them a medal.

Solution 2:

They are verbal nouns, i.e. ones to which an aura of verbiness still clings because of the fact that a particular action or process was necessary to bring them into existence. (For more info, see here, and/or Google "verbal noun".)