Name: // 冠詞のv-ingを理解する (// Understanding Gerunds v-ing)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:19:22.000Z
Duration: 7 min 24 s
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and they even look the same as so many adjectives

Anyway today we're going to learn about gerunds, which are everywhere in our life

For example, add "ing" to "swim", then we have "swimming"

Teacher teacher, why does a verb become a noun after we add "ing" to it?

Indeed, gerunds are sometimes mixed up with other identical words

Teacher teacher, how do I know when it's a verb

there must be a be verb in front as an auxiliary verb

So "I am swimming" is a progressive tense

Hey lil Ray you really have so many questions

The "swimming" in "swimming pool" is neither a noun nor a verb

All the questions above are related to the part of speech and a word's role in a sentence

Take a look at "swimming pool." "Swimming" is before "pool"

It serves as an adjective to further explain the noun after it, pool

Gerunds, as the name implies, serve as "nouns" in a sentence

So basically, the positions for nouns can be filled in with gerunds

the 3 positions of a sentence you can put a gerund in

that is, the subject, the object, and the complement

First, take what Crown usually says for example

So here, "I" is a noun, serving as the subject of the sentence

Let's take a look at an example when a gerund serves as the subject of the sentence

The "smoking" here is the subject of the sentence

is a gerund phrase, serving as the subject of the sentence

Then let's take a look at the object position

"My sister ate all the food" 我的妹妹把食物都吃光了

I'm hungry too! She always eats all the food!

The "food" here is a noun, also called the object, because in this sentence it receives the action

Next let's take a look at some examples where a gerund serves as the object of the sentence

The gerund "teaching English" here is the object of the sentence

The gerund "waking up early" is the object of the sentence

Next we have another kind of object, which is called the object of the preposition

Basically it's a noun after the preposition

Like "in this house," the "house" here is the object of the preposition

as long as it's a noun, it can be replaced by a gerund

So now let's take a look at an example where a gerund serves as the object of the preposition

The "making you laugh" here is the object of the preposition, at

The gerund "watching my videos" here is the object of the preposition, for

The last one is more difficult, nouns serving as the complement

A complement further explains other words

Alright, the "YouTuber" here is a noun, serving as a complement to modify the subject in front, Ray

Since a complement can be a noun, it can also be a gerund

The gerund "interacting with my fans" here is a complement

modifying the subject, "what I like as a YouTuber"

Although there is a be verb "is" before "interacting"

The "is" here is not an auxiliary verb. It's a verb

Also, "interacting" isn't a progressive action. It just means this matter

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