By adding more water, we can thin the paint. The law forbids shouting fire in a theater. Mr. Jones enjoys his work, collecting and repairing old stereos. My neighbor's pastime is training guard dogs. A gerund always ends in ing and is used as a noun.
Eating is fun.
Gerunds can have with them direct objects, predicate nominatives, predicate adjectives or modifiers to form what is called a gerund phrase . Eating is the gerund used as the subject of the verb is . It has its own direct object foods with the adjective solid , which together make up the gerund phrase eating solid foods serving as the subject of the sentence. Gerunds can be compound. Turning off the freeway was our mistake.