gerunds and gerund phrases
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Gerunds and Gerund Phrases. Verbals and Verbal Phrases: A Review. Remember, when verbs do what they’re told, they are an action or a state of being… John, a 10 th grader, plays Playstation 2 until PS3 comes out on the market. Easy! PLAYS is our verb, right?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
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Verbals and Verbal Phrases: A Review
• Remember, when verbs do what they’re told, they are an action or a state of being…– John, a 10th grader, plays Playstation 2 until
PS3 comes out on the market.• Easy! PLAYS is our verb, right?
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Verbals and Verbal Phrases: A Review
• But sometimes, verbs act like NOUNS, which as we all know, can be confusing….
• Playing Playstation 2 is something that John, a tenth grader likes.– Now….”playing” is acting like a noun– Our verb in the sentence becomes “likes”– Crazy!
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Gerunds
• Gerunds always, always, always end in –ing.
• They act like nouns in a sentence.• So they can be:
– Subjects, Direct objects, Indirect Objects, and Objects of a preposition.
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Gerunds
• Let’s try a few….• To swim• Swimming• To eat• Eating• To dance• Dancing
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Gerunds
• Okay, now a few examples within sentences…
• Leaving one’s school during senior year is painful.
• Gerund: leaving• The result was winning the football
game with a safety in the fourth quarter.• Gerund: winning
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Gerunds vs Present Participles
• A gerund ends in –ing and acts like a noun in a sentence.
• A present participle ends in –ing and acts like an adjective in a sentence
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Gerunds vs Present Participles
• Francisco’s first love is swimming.– Swimming is a gerund
• Francisco’s swimming coach was eaten by a great white shark– Swimming is a
participle, it modifies “coach”
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The “it” test
• One last thing….a trick if you will…try to replace –ing verbs with “it”
• If the sentence makes sense, you’ve got a gerund
• If not, it’s a present participle….