This is Part II of my Valentine's Day Grammar post. As George has in no way kept up with this project, I think it only appropriate that examples in this section use the verb "to like" in replacement of the verb "to love" from Part I.
Part I: Chapters 1-12
13) Gerunds
Gerund - word ending in ing that is both a noun and a verb
Gerund phrase - gerund with its complements, objects, and modifiers
Intransitive verb to be
present gerund - being
present perfect gerund - having been
Transitive verb to like
present active gerund - liking
present passive gerund - being liked
present perfect active gerund - having liked
present perfect passive gerund - having been liked
Gerunds have tense, but not person or number.
Gerunds and gerund phrases can function as subjects, predicate nominatives, appositives, direct objects, objects of prepositions, objective complements, and adverbial objectives.
Gerunds require an expressed agent/subject of the gerund if its omission would result in ambiguity, unintentional humor, factual error, or nonsense.
14) Participles
15) Adverb Clauses (2)
17) Adjective Clauses
18) Noun Clauses
19) Compound-Complex Sentences
20) Prepositional Phrases (2)
21) Participles (2)
22) Adverbs (2) and Adverbial Objectives (2)
23) Gerunds (2)
24) Miscellaneous
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