This page is intended to be a resource for English learners and teachers. You can practice answering these gerund and infinitive discussion questions by yourself or with a partner. You can also write the answers in a notebook, in a digital document, or in the comments section below. To help learners feel more confident and to develop grammatical accuracy, the warm-up questions have some 4. Object of a preposition: a gerund acts as an object of a preposition. I am interested in going to the museum. GERUNDS AND OTHER VERBALS Be careful not to confuse gerunds with participles. Examples. Unlike a gerund, which always functions as a noun, a participle is the form of a verb when it functions as an adjective. The gerund describes the relationship between two actions and is therefore always used together with another verb. We use the gerund to: talk about two simultaneous actions performed by the same subject, similar to the English structure while + ing Examples: En jouant, Max a marqué un but. While playing, Max scored a goal. Simply put, gerunds are verbs that act like a noun. In short, it’s an action that becomes a thing. Consequently, a gerund can turn a verb into a direct or indirect object, a sentence’s subject, or a preposition’s object. Gerunds are still verbs, but their sentence role changes. These words are formed by adding “-ing” to the root of Gerund: Dying is used as a noun in the sentence. Infinitive: To succeed is an infinitive—a verb preceded by to. Gerund: Succeeding is a noun here; indeed, it is the subject of the first sentence, making it a gerund. A verbal is a verb that acts like a different part of speech. In a sentence, verbals—participles, gerunds, or infinitives Use the Gerund when like is used in the sense of 'enjoy'. Example: I like rid ing my bike. Use the Infinitive when you do sth. in the sense of a habit. Example: I like to do my homework in the afternoon. (I think, it is good to do my homework in the afternoon). Mind the following examples: I like watch ing films. I would like to watch the film .

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