Unit 15 Gerunds

I chose this topic because I think that is very important to learn how to identify, when you are speaking writing or reading, if you have to use gerunds, nouns or verbs in the progressive form.
A gerund is a noun made from a verb and is composed by a verb in the base form and the -ing.

Types of gerunds and examples:

1.- Gerunds as a subject.- The structure is: Gerund (subject) +verb +object

• Traveling is their hobby.

Gerund: Traveling
Verb : is
Object : their hobby.

2.- Gerund as Object.- The structure is: subject+verb + Gerund (object)

• I remembered learning, as a child, a phrase like this “True friends as diamonds, false are oak leaves”

Subject : I
Verb : remembered
Object : learning.

3.- Gerunds as a subject complement.- The structure is: subject + verb + Gerund (Subject complemnent)

• Their favorite activity is climbing mountains.

Subject : Their favorite activity
Verb : is
Gerund : climbing.

4.- Gerunds as Object Complement

• He usually spends a lot of time searching for a new job.

Subject=He
Verb=usually spends
Object= a lot of time
Gerund=searching.

5.- Gerund as object of preposition

• We became friends by riding with each other and developed a good relationship.

Preposition=by
Gerund= riding

6.-Possesive gerund

• I know see that my perceiving friendship in this way was pretty simplistic

Possesive: my
gerund: perceiving

7.-Simple Active Gerunds

• Honest friends avoid telling you what you need to hear when you need to hear it.

8.-Perfect Active Gerunds

• Having gone through difficult experiences has bonded us for life.
  Passive gerunds

9.-Simple Passive Gerunds

• Being forced to socialize with an unknown person is not a good idea.

10.-Perfect Passive Gerunds

• Having been invited to meetings for years allowed him to make many friends.
  
  
  Irving Carrera Espinoza