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GERUNDS - Coggle Diagram
GERUNDS
A noun is best defined as a word that can be the subject, object or indirect object of a sentence, and a gerund and an infinitive can both be those things.
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And it can take an object, though it is not the sentence object but rather the object of the noun phrase in which the gerund is the head.
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The tricky thing with the gerund is that it looks exactly the same as the present participle and the present continuous tense, which can cause a bit of confusion.
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As a gerund is a verbal noun and not a normalised noun, it still retains some verbal behaviours, such as taking an adverb as a modifier.
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can be used as a subject, a noun, or an object of a preposition
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