In the sentence:
Her hobby in the springtime is gardening.
T
he gerund in the sentence is ‘gardening’.
It is
used as the subject of the sentence.
Gerund are verbs used as subjects in
a sentence with the root word added by ‘-ing’. Verbs are simply known as the ‘action’ words – may it be
mental, physical or mechanical. When verbs are paired with auxiliaries (helping
verbs), they are known as verb phrase. These helping verbs always go first
before the actual verb.
