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Underline the gerund in the following sentence. Dancing gives me joy.

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Underline the gerund in the following sentence.

Dancing gives me joy.

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Dancing gives me joy.

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Chapter 5.1: The Status of Tamil as a Classical Language - Grammar- Non-finite verbs [Page 156]

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