Find the gerunds in the following sentences and tell if they are used as subject, direct object, predicate nominative, appositive, indirect object, or object of the preposition. My father's occupation was farming. My desire, traveling, may happen soon. Writing is sometimes difficult. By saving, we can do our traveling.
Some people give gossiping too much time.
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.