Identifying Gerunds

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

Exercising is the best thing you can do for yourself.

• Exercising

• best

• thing

• yourself

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

Whenever I go to a swim meet, I enjoy the diving most.

• swim

• meet

• enjoy

• diving

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

Kelly was practicing juggling three apples at a time.

• practicing

• juggling

• apples

• time

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

Reading books is an interesting pastime for many people.

• Reading

• books

• interesting

• pastime

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

I'm considering painting my house soon.

• considering

• painting

• house

• soon

What is the function of a gerund in a sentence?

• a verb

• a noun

• an adjective

• an adverb

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

The tolling of the bells is getting annoying.

• tolling

• bells

• gettting

• annoying

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

For her report, Grace wrote about the harvesting of cranberries in Maine.

• report

• harvesting

• cranberries

• Maine

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

Drinking water is a healthy thing to do.

• Drinking

• water

• healthy

• thing

Identify the gerund in the following sentence:

The surgeon requested his patient stop smoking.

• surgeon

• requested

• patient

• smoking