{"id":73966,"date":"2020-04-13T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73966"},"modified":"2024-06-08T17:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T17:24:40","slug":"gerunds-ing-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/gerunds-ing-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerunds (Ing Forms)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When&nbsp;<b>-ing&nbsp;<\/b>forms are used like&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/how-to-identify-nouns\/\">nouns<\/a>, they are often called&nbsp;<b>gerunds<\/b>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><b>Smoking\u00a0<\/b>is injurious to health. (Here the ing form is the subject of the verb is.)<\/li><li>I like\u00a0<b>shooting.<\/b> (Here the ing form is the object of the verb like.)<\/li><li><b>Trespassing<\/b>\u00a0is prohibited. (Here the ing form is the subject)<\/li><li>Trading\u00a0means\u00a0<b>buying<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>selling<\/b>\u00a0securities, goods and services.<\/li><li>We got the job finished by\u00a0<b>working<\/b>\u00a0fourteen hours a day. (Here the ing form is the object of the preposition by.)<\/li><li>To become a successful investor consider\u00a0<b>enrolling<\/b>\u00a0in an\u00a0options trading education\u00a0program.<\/li><li>My English\u00a0<b>writing<\/b>\u00a0skills improve with every grammar exercise I do.<\/li><li><b>Reading<\/b>\u00a0the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0will help you learn to manage your money.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all <strong>-ing<\/strong> forms are <strong>gerunds<\/strong>. Present participles are also -ing forms. While gerunds act like nouns, present participles act like adjectives or verbs. For example, we can use present participles to modify nouns. Examples are: <em>rolling stone, falling leaves, boring class, interesting lesson <\/em>etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also use present participles to make continuous tense forms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is <strong>raining<\/strong>. (Here the present participle raining helps to form the present continuous tense form.)<\/li><li>They are <strong>waiting<\/strong> for us. <\/li><li>You are <strong>annoying <\/strong>me.<\/li><li>It has been r<strong>aining <\/strong>for hours.<\/li><li>She has been <strong>teaching <\/strong>here since 2005. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When&nbsp;-ing&nbsp;forms are used like&nbsp;nouns, they are often called&nbsp;gerunds. Smoking\u00a0is injurious to health. (Here the ing form is the subject of the verb is.) I like\u00a0shooting. (Here the ing form is the object of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[128,840,2595],"class_list":["post-73966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-gerunds","tag-ing-forms","tag-what-are-gerunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77736,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966\/revisions\/77736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}