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I3-L2. Gerunds As Subjects and Objects
I3-L2. Gerunds As Subjects and Objects
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Focus on Grammar 3
Part VII, Unit 27
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
Copyright © 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Running for Office 1
I will keep
fighting
Let’s discuss for a new
improving our hospital.
schools.
Running for Office 2
I enjoy
working for
the people. Do you resent
paying higher
taxes?
Form
A gerund is the base form of a verb + -ing.
Gerunds can be used as nouns.
verb
verb + -ing
-ing = noun
noun
singular subject
present progressive
I am voting today.
verb
gerund
subject
Complete the sentences
Practice 1 with gerunds.
verb object
verb object
Example:
A: Why do Christophe and Hiro go hiking so often?
watching birds
B: They both enjoy ____________.
How
Howoften
oftendo
doyou
you II go
godancing
dancing
go
godancing?
dancing? every
everynight.
night.
1. 2.
Ask a partner how often he or
Practice 4 she does these activities.
4.
3. 5.
References