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For the week of
February 22, 2010
This week’s sentence:
• speeding around the ice
hockey rink is my sister annies
favorite thing to do on boring
days.
Day One
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speeding (gerund)
around (prep. phrase)
the (article)
ice hockey (adjective)
rink (common noun)
is (linking verb)
my (possessive
pronoun)
• sister (common noun)
• annies
(proper/possessive
noun)
• favorite (adjective)
• thing (common noun)
• to do (infinitive)
• on (preposition)
• boring (participle)
• days (common noun)
Notes on Gerunds:
• A gerund is a verbal that ends in ing and functions as a noun.
• Gerund as subject:
• Traveling might satisfy your desire for new experiences.
• Gerund as direct object:
• They do not appreciate my singing.
• Gerund as subject complement (predicate nom. or pred. adj):
• My cat's favorite activity is sleeping.
• Gerund as object of preposition:
• The police arrested him for speeding.
• A Gerund Phrase :
• Finding a needle in a haystack would be easier
than what we're trying to do.
• You might get in trouble for faking an illness
to avoid work.
• Being the boss made Jeff feel uneasy.
Your Turn:
Identify the gerund phrase in each senence
• Eating ice cream on a windy day can be a
messy experience if you have long, untamed
hair.
• A more disastrous activity for long-haired
people is blowing giant bubble gum bubbles
with the car windows down.
• Wild food adventures require getting your hair
cut to a short, safe length.
Be careful not to mistake a gerund phrase for a
present participle phrase.
• Gerund and present participle phrases are easy to confuse
because they both begin with an ing word. The difference is
that a gerund phrase will always function as a noun while
a present participle phrase describes another word in the
sentence. Check out these examples:
• Jamming too much clothing into a washing machine will
result in disaster.
• Bernard hates buttering toast with a fork. (DO)
• Buttering toast with a fork, Bernard vowed that he would
finally wash the week's worth of dirty dishes piled in the
sink. (Adjective phrase telling more about Bernard)
• Points to remember:
• A gerund is a verbal ending in -ing
that is used as a noun.
• A gerund phrase consists of a
gerund plus modifier(s), object(s),
and/or complement(s).
• Gerunds and gerund phrases
virtually never require punctuation.