{"id":32830,"date":"2022-02-14T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/locate-the-gerund-since-it-is-used-as-a-noun-determine-its\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:41:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:41:29","slug":"locate-the-gerund-since-it-is-used-as-a-noun-determine-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/locate-the-gerund-since-it-is-used-as-a-noun-determine-its\/","title":{"rendered":"Locate the gerund, since it is used as a noun, determine its"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Locate the gerund, since it is used as a noun, determine its use.<\/p>\n<p>same choices for the first 4 questions. And I know the gerunds on all of them I just need their noun use \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1) I enjoy walking in the country (walking)<\/p>\n<p>a) predicate noun<\/p>\n<p>b) direct object<\/p>\n<p>c) object \u00a0of preposition<\/p>\n<p>d) subject\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2) Reckless driving is dangerous.(driving)<\/p>\n<p>3) A popular pastime is backpacking.(backpacking)<\/p>\n<p>4) John has finally lost interest in collecting stamps.(collecting)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ok now locate and identify the -ing use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5) having no one to play with, the child turned to books for companionship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So is -having- a participle, verb phrase, or a gerund?<\/p>\n<p>6) napping is an effortless activity. (Napping)<\/p>\n<p>7) a thinking person will avoid foolish strife. (thinking)<\/p>\n<p>8) Mary occupied herself by painting. (Painting)<\/p>\n<p>9) frank was swimming in the private pool. (Swimming)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locate the gerund, since it is used as a noun, determine its use. same choices for the first 4 questions. And I know the gerunds on all of them I just need their noun use \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0 1) I enjoy walking in the country (walking) a) predicate noun b) direct object c) object \u00a0of preposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}