Gerunds and Participles

Coming home, he found several valuable things missing.

• Gerund

• Participle

A participle is a form of a verb that acts as a(n) ---

• adjective

• adverb

• noun

• verb

Identify the highlighted word/phrase as a Gerund or Participle.
In the kitchen, the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of back, two coffees and two cool glasses of milk.

• Participle

• Gerund

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The wind blew.  A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window.

• Participle

• Gerund

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He ruined his sight by watching TV all day.

• Participle

• Gerund

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Asking questions is a whole lot easier than answering them.

• Participle

• Gerund

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Cru enjoys sketching people.

• Cru

• enjoys

• sketching

• people

We discussed moving to Florida.

• We

• Florida

• discussed

• moving

Of all my interests, I care most about swimming.

• swimming

• interests

• care

• about

My favorite sport, running, takes a great deal of effort.

• takes

• running

• favorite

• effort