A gerund is a verbal that always ends in ing and is used as a noun.
Example:
Eating is fun.
Gerunds can be compound.
Example:
Jeff likes hiking and camping.
The gerund can be a subject, a direct object, a predicate nominative, an appositive, an indirect object, or an object of a preposition.
Examples:
Eating is fun. (subject)
I like eating. (direct object)
A fun time is eating. (predicate nominative)
A fun time, eating, takes much time. (appositive)
I give eating too much time. (indirect object)
I give much time to eating. (object of preposition)
Gerunds can have with them direct objects, predicate nominatives,
predicate adjectives or modifiers to form what is called a gerund phrase.
Example:
Eating solid foods is hard for babies. (the phrase is the subject)
Eating is the gerund used
as the subject. It has its own direct object foods
with the adjective solid, which together make up the gerund phrase.
Instructions: Find the gerunds and gerund phrases in the following sentences and tell how they
are used (subject, direct object, predicate nominative, appositive, indirect object, or object of the preposition).
1. Fishing is my friend's favorite sport.
2. By adding more water, we can thin the paint.
3. The law forbids shouting fire in a theater.
4. Mr. Jones enjoys his work, collecting and repairing old stereos.
5. My neighbor's pastime is training guard dogs.
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Answers:
1. Fishing is my friend's favorite sport.
- subject
2. By adding more water, we can thin the paint.
- object of the preposition
3. The law forbids shouting fire in a theater.
- direct object
4. Mr. Jones enjoys his work, collecting and repairing old stereos.
- appositives
5. My neighbor's pastime is training guard dogs.
- predicate nominative
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