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Lets Go Hunting for Gerunds! University
Learning Center PC 247 / AC I 160Developed
by Lydia Fonseca
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Gerunds
These ugly critters are a menace until you hunt
them down and use them correctly!
Here are some examples

• burrowing scratching crawling falling

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Know your enemy!

• To hunt and use those pesky gerunds, you need
  to know more about them.
• You will recognize that gerunds come from
  verbs, but
• they act as NOUNS!!!

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Locating your prey!

• Gerunds are tricky little critters!

Youll find them hiding in sentences as the
Subject or as the Object.
So Gerunds can be both subjective and objective!
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As a subject, that Gerund may look like this

• Hunting for Gerunds is my favorite grammatical
  sport.

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As the object, the Gerund may look like this

• Gerunds are good at running for their lives.

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If they really want to trick you

• A gerund can also act as a compliment or
  appositive for a noun. Like this

• I had the critter, clawing and spitting, in my
  sights.

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See if you can spot them in time!
Find the pesky critter!

• Sleeping peacefully, the gerund never saw it
  coming.

• Sleeping peacefully, the gerund never saw it
  coming.

The gerund sleeping is part of an appositive
phrase modifying the subject.
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Look out! Theres two of em!

• Hunting gerunds is amusing!

Hunting gerunds is amusing!
The gerund hunting is a subject.
The gerund amusing is an object.
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Go out and get em!

• Remember, gerunds may look like -ing verbs

But they act like nouns.
Find and use them as the subject, object, or noun
complement in a sentence.
Happy Hunting!
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