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Question
Pick out the gerund from the following sentence:
The attitude of taking destroys families.
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Solution
Taking – Gerund
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- We can use the present participle by itself without the helping verb when we wish to indicate that an action is happening at the same time as another.
- In example 1, Sophie “said” something. “Said”, here, is the main action.
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- Analyse the other examples in the same way.
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