1. Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
2006

2. Verbals and Verbal Phrases: A Review
Remember, when verbs do what they’re told, they are an action or a state of being…
John, a 10th grader, plays Playstation 2 until PS3 comes out on the market.
Easy! PLAYS is our verb, right?

3. Verbals and Verbal Phrases: A Review
But sometimes, verbs act like NOUNS, which as we all know, can be confusing….
Playing Playstation 2 is something that John, a tenth grader likes.
Now….”playing” is acting like a noun
Our verb in the sentence becomes “likes”
Crazy!

4. Gerunds Gerunds always, always, always end in –ing.
They act like nouns in a sentence.
They don’t act like any other part of speech. Just nouns.
So they can be:
Subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of a preposition.

5. Exercise 7, page 152

6. Gerunds Okay, now a few examples within sentences…
Leaving one’s school during senior year is painful.
Gerund: leaving (subject)
The result was winning the football game with a safety in the fourth quarter.
Gerund: winning (object of result)

7. Gerunds vs Present Participles
A gerund ends in –ing and acts like a noun in a sentence.
A present participle ends in –ing and acts like an adjective in a sentence

8. Gerunds vs Present Participles
Francisco’s first love is swimming.
Swimming is a gerund
Francisco’s swimming coach was eaten by a great white shark
Swimming is a participle (acts like an adjective)
It modifies “coach”

9. How do you know if you have a gerund?
Replace –ing verbs with “it”
If the sentence makes sense, you’ve got a gerund
If not, it’s a present participle

10. Practice Exercise 8, page 153. Partner – OK
Write the gerund phrase ONLY. Do nothing else.
Partner – OK
Write the names of the exercises