You know, the kind of friend you'd never see yourself making today, but its just kind of works out because you've known each other for so long перевести

Знаешь, такого друга, которого ты никогда не увидишь, но просто получается, что ты так долго знаешь друг друга

Hey there, my dear friend. Let's talk about music! What's your favourite genre? Are you into old or new kind of music?
Nowdays, teens tend to listen to hip-hop, rap or rock. Too bad they don't pay attention to classic, but what can we do here? It's their choice. I honestly don't know what's my fav genre since i listen to pretty much anything, as long as i like it. Like, when im down i tend to listen to some slow, sad music, but when i'm happy i listen to pop! Have to admit that i pop is #1 genre for me because it sounds really simple, and the lyrics are simple to remember, plus, the rhytm is always really good. I love to listen to music when i'm working out or outside, doing some stuff alone such as buying food in shop. Life without music is really boring after all. 
I used to learn guitar, but gave up on it since i have to pass exams pretty soon. Hope i'll catch up later.
Thanks for the talk, friend. Hope to chat with you sometime later.

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The Difference Between Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives

Verbals in English Grammar: Definitions, Examples, and Exercises

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Richard Nordquist

Updated July 17, 2019

A verbal is a word derived from a verb that functions in a sentence as a noun or modifier rather than as a verb. In other words, a verbal is a verb that acts like a different part of speech.

Verbals include infinitives, gerunds (also known as -ing forms), and participles (also known as -ing forms and -en forms). A word group based on a verbal is called a verbal phrase. Each of these verbals is often part of a phrase, which includes related modifiers, objects, and complements.

What Are Participles?

A participle is a verb form that can be used as an adjective to modify nouns and pronouns, as in this example:

The children, crying and exhausted, were guided out of the collapsed house.

Crying is a present participle, formed by adding -ing to the present form of the verb (cry). Exhausted is a past participle, formed by adding -ed to the present form of the verb (exhaust). Both participles modify the subject, children. All present participles end in -ing. The past participles of all regular verbs end in -ed. Irregular verbs, however, have various past participle endings—for instance, thrown, ridden, built, and gone.

A participial phrase is made up of a participle and its modifiers. A participle may be followed by an object, an adverb, a prepositional phrase, an adverb clause, or any combination of these. For example, in the following sentence the participial phrase consists of a present participle (holding), an object (the torch), and an adverb (steadily):