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  Understanding Verbs: Gerunds, Participles, & Infinitives

Exercise 1

Underline the gerunds or gerund phrases in each sentence.

  1. Raising the funds proved to be a difficult task.
  2. Camping at Coleto Creek was the Smith family’s annual summer vacation.
  3. Joseph hoped to obtain a job by learning the welding trade.
  4. The Moreno family loves cooking for relatives.
  5. I am able to earn money by working in the campus library.

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