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. Turning off the freeway was our mistake.
2. The secretary's duties are taking minutes and typing letters.
3. You can start this machine by simply pushing this button.
4. His assignment, testing jet planes, is really exciting.
5. In some countries tourists can be arrested for taking pictures.
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Answers:
1. Turning off the freeway was our mistake.
- subject
2. The secretary's duties are taking minutes and typing letters.
- predicate nominatives
3. You can start this machine by simply pushing this button.
- object of the preposition
4. His assignment, testing jet planes, is really exciting.
- appositive
5. In some countries tourists can be arrested for taking pictures.
- object of the preposition
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