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Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
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What is a verbal?
 When a verb form is used as a noun, an adjective, or an
adverb, is it called a verbal.
 Last time we talked about verb forms used as adjectives
 participles.
 Today we are focusing on verb forms used as NOUNS. 
gerunds 
Gerund
 form of a verb that ends in –ing and acts as a noun
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Loving you is easy ‘cause you’re beautiful.
Where can you use a gerund?
Any place you can put a noun in a sentence, a gerund
could appear.
Possibilities include:
Appositive, direct object, subject, indirect object, noun in a
prepositional phrase, predicate noun
Verb? Participle? Gerund?
 Kevin is yawning at his desk.
 The yawning boy was very tired.
 Yawning is contagious.
 Sighing, my sister upset me.
 My sister’s sighing upset me.
 My sister was sighing, and that upset me.
Gerund Phrase
consists of a gerund and one or more modifiers
ACT together as a noun
Possibilities for a modifier:
adverbs, nouns, adverbs, prepositional phrases
Weird but not uncommon…
Gerunds with direct AND indirect objects
The algebra teacher tried giving her
students praise.