I like pruning the fruit trees. I had only one desire, leaving for home. Writing a good novel is hard work. With his snoring in his sleep, his wife couldn't sleep. 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. Directing traffic and helping school children is her job.