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In the sentence, "You are going home.", the parts of speech are:
- you; second person, personal pronoun, subject of the sentence.
- are; auxiliary verb
- going; verb
- home; common noun, direct object of the verb.
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∙ 13y agoNo. "Are going" is one of the forms of the verb to go. You go, you do go, you are going.
A gerund phrase would be: Going home to see mom always pleases me. "Going home" acts as a noun subject in that sentence.
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