Subject/Direct Object
In the sentence, "Jogging keeps you healthy," is the gerund a subject or a direct object?
What is a subject?
A direct object receives the action of this part of speech in a sentence.
What is a verb.
What are the two main traits of a gerund?
They always end in -ing and must be a noun.
This is the base form of a verb preceded by the word "to" (e.g., to run, to study).
What is an infinitive
Identify the infinitive in this sentence: My teacher asked me to collect the papers.
What is to collect?
In the sentence, "Do you mind opening the window?" is the gerund a subject or a direct object?
What is a direct object?
Identify the gerund acting as the direct object: I love painting landscapes on the weekend.
Identify the gerund acting as the subject: Swimming is great exercise during the summer.
What is swimming?
Identify the infinitive in this sentence: She wants to learn Spanish before her trip.
What is to learn?
Identify the gerund(s) acting as the direct object: Do you prefer reading books or watching movies?
What are reading and watching?
In the sentence, "Her favorite hobby is baking cupcakes," is the word baking a subject? (Hint: Look closely at where it sits).
What is baking?
Find the direct object gerund in this sentence: My little brother avoids eating his vegetables.
What is eating?
Identify the gerund subject in this sentence: Reading science fiction books expands your imagination.
What is reading?
Fix or identify the error in this sentence: I need studying for the grammar test.
Correct studying to "I need to study".
Identify the gerund acting as the subject in this sentence: Collecting rare stamps is a fascinating hobby.
What is collecting?
In the sentence, "We enjoy hiking in the mountains during autumn," is the gerund a subject or a direct object?
What is a direct object?
Identify the gerund direct object in this sentence: The students practiced solving algebra equations.
What is solving?
True or False: A gerund phrase acting as a subject always takes a singular verb (like is or takes), even if the phrase mentions plural words.
What is true? (e.g., Running marathons is hard.)
In the sentence, "He saved money to buy a new bicycle," the infinitive is answering this question about the main verb.
What is "Why"?
Find both the infinitive and the gerund direct object in this sentence: Mark wants to learn how to cook, but he hates cleaning the kitchen.
What are to learn (infinitive) and cleaning (gerund direct object)? (Note: "to cook" is also an infinitive, so accept either or both infinitive mentions!)
Create a sentence where the gerund "cooking" is used as a direct object, and then state who is doing the action.
Variety. (He loves cooking.)
Identify both the gerund and its function in this sentence: They finished cleaning the classroom before the bell rang.
What is cleaning (or cleaning the classroom), acting as a direct object?
Rewrite this sentence so that the phrase "To bake cookies" becomes a gerund acting as the subject.
What is "Baking cookies is fun"?
Complete this sentence with a correct infinitive phrase: My goal is _______ before midnight.
Multiple answers.
In this sentence, label all three: the infinitive, the gerund subject, and the gerund direct object:
"To win the championship requires waking up early every day, and the team loves practicing."
Infinitive: To win (or to win the championship)
Gerund Subject: waking (or waking up early every day)
Gerund Direct Object: practicing