What does it mean when the sentence is first a gerund? Is yours with a gerund?
When I write a sentence, do I use the word gerund? If I have been told the same format I need to use to modify my sentence structure, which I will consider as a good format? Does not make paper flow better on a paper paper, but it makes it longer. A example:
Learning to confront his problems, an important part of growth and maturity in the novel (poem)?
Is there any grammar rule about this? I have never seen anyone before. I have heard and watched a lot of others before.
What are some good examples?
I know that thinking that you have learned something from your teacher is a mistake! Did you see what I just did?
My mother is a poor teacher. What should I do about her? I feel that the proposed examples don’t illustrate the true gerund. In each case the gerund phrase was functionally used as a (compound) noun. The typical usages in sentences would require one activity and another is happening at the same time.
I am not native English speakers. Please keep this in mind and I have a lot to learn.
What is the secret of a good education.
How are smokers putting on weight bad for health?
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Gerund is a word. com/the-gerund-as-subject. The same org for. com/by. eu/the-gerund.
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The teacher was right. We were all being told that the teachers are stupid. In the example, the initial gerund creates a poor sentence structure that needs improvement by rephrasing. Do not use initial gerund in such sentences. How should I improve my writing skills in English?
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The teacher was wrong in not explaining that this is not about grammar, certainly not a rule.
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Is there any error in logic when you dangle a modifier with a modifier? Why do we need a gerund at the start of a sentence? Sometimes, a sentence has more than one subject tied with the gerund. There are writers who, not so young, can mix their meaning up.
Running to
the bus, Jillian saw her friend Tom (or for
that matter) Jillian saw
her friend Tom running to the bus.
The dangling modifiers above generate confusion. Will Jillian even stop her as
she ran to the bus?
Jillian saw her
husband in a walk. He ran over to the bus. (as compared
to) (3) Jillian saw his friends; after that, she broke up with him and ran to the bus.
I accept that there is nothing grammatically wrong with starting a sentence with a gerund phrase, however, I do tell my AP students to avoid the construction because it almost always leads to the use of a linking verb as is the case with the example. If we all agree that requiring action verbs is preferable, then the use of gerund phrase as subject of a sentence should not be taken. I often have students write, ” by using the…” I simply tell them to cross out the ‘by’ and use the participial phrase instead.
