Examples of gerunds or gerund phrases used as the subject.

Example of gerund noun phrase. Gerund phrase has been explained in detail in a former post titled Types of phrases. Therefore it is partly a noun and partly a verb. A phrase that starts with a gerund and works as a noun is called a gerund phrase.

A gerund phrase as a predicate noun would be Lola is sleeping in the tent Other examples are. Gerund examples- playing smoking laughing running smoking teaching etc. Types of gerund phrases a.

Notice that in our third example the gerund studying is being modified. So we can breakdown the gerund phrase like so. Gerund phrases can be one of.

In this sentence running is the gerund. Examples of Gerund Phrases. For example we can use the gerund phrase being rich again with a noun function.

Gerund phrase as object. Any action verb can be made into a gerund. The most disastrous activity for women with long curly hair is blowing huge bubble gum bubble with the car windows down.

Dawns favorite activity is drawing. So is the old smelly shivering dog is also a phrase. This does not have any connection to whether it is a phrase or a sentence.