Gerunds Practice

What principal part of the verb is used as a gerund?

• past

• present

• past participle

• present participle

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Improving one's imagination can have profound effects on personal growth and creativity.

• Improving one's imagination

• profound effects

• personal growth and creativity

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By regularly exposing yourself to imaginative storytelling, individuals can enhance their capacity to dream and create.

• exposing yourself

• to imaginative storytelling

• to dream and create

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Developing one's imagination can also be achieved through hobbies like photography, which encourages individuals to see the world from different angles and perspectives.

• Developing

• Developing one's imagination

• photography

• to see the world

IDENTIFY THE NOUN FUNCTION OF THE GERUND PHRASE:

• Subject

• Predicate Noun

• Direct Object

• Object of the Preposition

IDENTIFY THE NOUN FUNCTION OF THE GERUND/GERUND PHRASE:

• Subject

• Predicate Noun

• Direct Object

• Object of the Preposition

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To broaden your imagination, you could consider painting, drawing, or sculpting.

• to broaden

• imagination

• drawing

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To broaden your imagination, you could consider painting, drawing, or sculpting.

• Subject

• Predicate Noun

• Direct Object

• Object of the Preposition

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Developing one's imagination can also be achieved through hobbies like photography, which encourages individuals to see the world from different angles and perspectives.

• Subject

• Predicate Noun

• Direct Object

• Object of the Preposition

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Helpful for boosting cognitive and creative abilities is solving puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers.

• boosting cognitive and creative abilities

• solving

• solving puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers

• helpful