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Title: The Gerund


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Gerunds
  • The Gerund

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Before that what is a phrase?
  • A phrase is a word or collection of words that do
    NOT have both a subject and verb.
  • In other words, a phrase cannot be a sentence.

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What in the world?
  • How do you even pronounce it?

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Gerund - a verb form ending in _ing that is used
as a noun
  • Examples
  • Boating is my favorite summer activity.
  • She asked him to stop hitting.
  • We all felt she was out of turn by talking out of
    turn.
  • The problem is their constant fighting.

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Hint nouns or pronouns directly before gerunds
should be possessive (his, her, their, or nouns
with apostrophes)
  • Examples
  • Their partying woke up the neighborhood.
  • Missys crying was totally inappropriate.

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Warning Gerunds can be easily confused with
present participles used as adjectives or parts
of verb phrases.
  • EXAMPLES
  • RUNNING INTO AN OLD FRIEND, ANGIE DECIDED TO MISS
    HER DATE. (This is a participle it describes
    Angie)
  • I WAS LISTENING, BUT I COULDNT HEAR
    ANYTHING.(Listening is part of the verb its
    not a gerund)

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Gerund Phrase consists of a gerund and its
modifiers and complements. The entire phrase is
used as a noun
  • Examples
  • Walking around the lake makes me feel happy.
  • I cant tolerate eating with your mouth open.
  • The only activity the dog enjoyed was barking at
    squirrels.
  • She found joy in teaching well.

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Try it!
  1. I have always been grateful to my parents for
    naming me John.
  2. Can you touch the floor without bending your
    knees?
  3. Taking accurate measurements of the skin is the
    first step.

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More practice
  • 4. The final steps involve forming the eyes,
    tongue and ears.
  • 5. The next task is making a detailed drawing of
    the contours of the animal.
  • 6. We enjoyed running around the park.

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  • Now take out the clickers!
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