I like love hate swimming Or I like to love to hate to swim Enjoy and dislike are followed by gerunds but not infinitives.

Examples of gerunds used as direct objects. The teacher appreciated my trying the math problem. Have you ever read a book about riding a bike. Building buying living When it is used as the subject the verb form is singular conjugated as the third person singular and it does not accept degree verbs.

Since a gerund often acts as a noun it takes the place of a noun in a sentence as well namely as subject direct object subject complement subject of preposition. A settling of debts. The making of this film.

Leslie got into trouble for talking to Sarah. For example in the sentence Stacy gave the dog a bone bone is the direct object and dog is the indirect object since the dog is receiving the direct object the bone. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.

Examples of gerunds or gerund phrases used as direct objects. Like nouns we can use gerunds with adjectives including articles and other determiners. Example with a gerund as an object.

The team practiced kicking. The direct object is the noun or pronoun that receives the action of the main verb. Swim swimming Some verbs can be followed by either a gerund or an infinitive to verb.

Gerund is subjectGerund is objectGerund is complement. Gerunds from transitive nouns can have direct objects. Take this example I like walking my dogs walking my dogs and not walking is certainly the direct object of like but we also have my dogs as a direct object of walking.