Learn English Grammar: 6 Ways to Use Gerunds

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May I ask ..... sometimes I confuse about whether to use a noun form of a verb or to use gerund? For instance, The government disagree about the construction of the infrastructure. /The government disagree about the constructing infrastructure./The government disagree about constructing the infrastructure.....which one is the appropriate one? This question has been confusing to me for such a long time T.T Thank you.

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Good question. The gerund meaning is the second one, since "food" is a noun, as is "cooking" in this case. For the first meaning, you would mostly commonly say "I don't like it when she cooks" to avoid confusion.

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4th one is not pure gerund example, it is hybrid gerund/participle

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You're right! I was using the quick informal way. It's very common to hear "What I love/hate/don't like/adore/want most/more..." informally.

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Very useful lesson Alex. Only 8 minutes to make it clear how to use gerunds! You are simply the best! Thank you 😊

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"She is running a business" is definitely continuous, but when you flip it and start with "Running a business..." it becomes a gerund. Like I mentioned in the video, think of gerunds as verbal nouns, since they can have both the characteristics of a noun or a verb depending on the context. Really, the most important thing is that you know how to use them in a sentence.

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Great lesson, Alex, thanks! You said that in the case of "She is running," that 'running' is a continuous verb, and that we shouldn't ever confuse a continuous verb for a gerund. What about in the case of "She is running a business." And then in the case of "Running a business is a good way to build your own success?" Also, for number 2: "He hates waking up early," You said gerunds act like nouns, 'early' seems be an adverb modifying its meaning. Could you expand on that? Love your lessons!

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I really apreciate a lot your help! I always wanted to know better the different uses of gerund and I tried to find out in a more systemic way like this but I couldn't find out any good explanation in any grammar Also I asked to some native speakers but they didn't know how to provide me a good response. You solved what for me was one of the most difficult questions in English grammar!!

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Alex, I teach spoken English and some of my students come from non-English medium schools. I've discovered that if there's anything that make my students go tense--I mean the tenses----it's a gerund! Don't blame them really, for gerunds are sneaky wily nouns almost successfully masquerading as innocent verbs in the continuous form!

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Thanks a lot....I was a bit lost but now a truly understand how gerunds must be used.

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One can picture the speaker calling forth the spirits Sir is it a gerund

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I love your videos. They are always clear and easily understood. I have one doubt here. In the 4th sentence 'I saw Jim riding his bike'. Is 'riding' in this sentence a gerund? A gerund has a noun function and must answer the question what? or who? put to the verb, right? It must follow the rules of a noun. Here 'riding his bike' is giving us more information about Jim and that would make it a participle (adjective) wouldn't it? If we were to expand it, it would read: I saw Jim who was riding his bike. So I can make it a relative clause. So it still fits a participle than a gerund. Please clarify. Thanks in advance.

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[@MuhammadAl-Amin-t8i]

As we know, which word or phrases can modify noun/pronoun that is an adjective. In the example of 4, you said that 'riding' is a gerund because of object complement but there also we can say 'riding' is a present participle. Could you explain the mystery? please sir

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Yes, it's a participle and it's the object complement.

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To form the gerund form in english you simply take the infiniti + ing. Ex. to talk talking to view viewing to sing singing There are some irregular forms. Verb that end in with e you drop it and add ing. Ex. to dance dancing to make making to ride riding to age aging

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With all due respect, example no. 4 is without a doubt a present participle, not a gerund. It does have a tense; it does have a subject; it does refer to a progressive action within a specific period in the past.

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Excellent! Thank you for the information! Example 4 (I saw him riding...) doesn't look like a gerund to me though (maybe due to my mother tongue). It's more like a present participle on my mind, which works more like an adjective (eg The running man, the smoking barrel). I'd like to hear an informed native speaker's view on that, thanks a lot.

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Thanks for sharing~ with all due respect, just a small question about the 4th one, I thought it was supposed to be a participle? no?

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