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Required Review packet 2015
1. Gerunds
1. take a verb
2. add -ing
3. use it as a noun
I flexed my muscles. - “flexed” is a verb.
Flexing my muscles over and over is a
favorite hobby of mine. - “flexing” is a
noun.
2. Gerunds are NOUNS
What do nouns do?
They identify person, place or thing.
They do not describe things!!! Something that
describes something else is an adjective. When
an -ing word describes something, it’s NOT a
GERUND!
3. How to find gerunds:
Seeking a shortcut to the California gold fields was fatal for
twelve members of a party of thirty in 1849.
Eating an apple was almost fatal to Snow White.
These are gerund phrases b/c they are noun phrases.
ALSO, THESE ARE SIMPLE SENTENCES, SO IT’S EASY
TO SEE THE NOUNS.
5. When an -ing word is an adjective, it
isn’t a gerund.
Struggling across a desert region in California,
the other eighteen members barely survived.
This phrase is a participle (it describes what the
subject of the sentence (other 18 members) was
doing). ONLY WORRY ABOUT GERUNDS.
6. Gerunds (NOUNS) & participles (ADJ)
1. gerund seeking
2. participle (struggling goes with
“members” --tells you what the
subject is doing, so is an adj.)
3. gerund (upon reaching (obj of a
preposition)
4. 5 & 6 - visiting & extending are
participles (just like #2--tells you
what the sub. is doing
7--10. gerunds (the drying of, the
stunting of, the forming of, the shining
of) These all have “the” in front of
them.
11. gerund (because it’s the object of
the preposition “Except for working”)
12. & 13 gerunds the uncovering of,
the building of (just like 7-10)
14. participle (drawing wagonloads
tells you what the mules were doing--
an adj.)
15. gerund (the finding of)
16. & 17-- participle (dropping &
rising -- both tell you what the sub.
(the mountains) do)
18. gerund (Establishing...--it’s one
big noun phrase)
7. Write your own sentence using gerunds. Make sure
they are NOUNS.
1. The gecko can run on walls and ceilings by clinging to things with the
suckers on its feet.
2. We drove almost constantly by travelling 2,000 miles in 4 days,
3. The cormorant spots a fish, and then, diving and swimming, he catches it.
4. Establishing a standard time system brought order out of confusion.
5. The kangaroo defends itself by hitting with its forepaws.
6. Bees keep busy with the gathering of nectar and pollen, the making of bee
bread, the care of babies, the keeping of the hive, and the protection of the
hive.
7. Galileo made his first telescope by placing a lens at each end of an organ
pipel
8. Riding to the top of the Eiffel tower was scary.
9. The eagle got his dinner by forcing an osprey to drop its fish.