Gerund Summary
Gerunds as Subjects
Gerunds — referring to activities
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Trading on eBay is another way of buying and selling things.
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Gerunds as Objects
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Gerunds - expressing attitudes about activities
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Jamal enjoys playing soccer. Are you afraid of losing?
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Verbal phrases used before gerunds:Prepositions used after particular verbs:
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He talks about leaving. |
Gerunds After Indirect Objects
Gerunds - expressing gratitude, apology, disappointment and opinion about other people's activitiesAfter certain verbs indirect objects are expressed as:
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I thanked him for fixing my door. I appreciate his fixing my door.
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Gerunds phrases
Gerunds — stating meansHow?
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How do you stay in shape? Arnold stays in shape by working out. |
Gerunds — stating function, purpose and meansWhat for?
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What's it for? for tying boxes. Why do you use it? to tie boxes. How do you close boxes? with string / by using string. |
Gerunds Expressions
Gerunds — after certain verbs
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He sat at his desk working. We found him napping. |
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Parallel Phrasing
Recognizing gerund word forms in context
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He is very honest, kind and responsibility. He is very honest, kind and responsible. |
Related Practices
Participial adjectives: agent vs. receiver -ed vs. -ing
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The act was entertaining. (participial adjective) |
Participial adjectives: ongoing vs. completed
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a roasting chicken - still cooking! (present participial adjective) |
Verbs and adjectives followed by prepositions
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If you try you can succeed __ anything you want.
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Recognizing gerund word forms in context
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Welcome! eBay is the world's first, biggest and person-to-person online trading community. It's a place to find the stuff you want, to sell the stuff you have and to make a few friends while you're at it. |
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