Gerund adalah kata kerja dengan “-ing” yang berfungsi sebagai kata benda dan karenanya dapat dipakai sebagaisubjek, objek, dan pelengkap ( complement) dalam kalimat, jugadibelakang sebuah preposisi. Contoh-contoh :
- Swimming is a good sport. (subjek)
- Most of us like swimming. (Objek)
- Her favourte hooby isswimming (complement)
- After swimming for one hour, they had some coffee. (dibelakang prep)
Selain itu, gerund juga digunakan setelah kata-katatertentu seperti : “be used to,beaccustomed to, fond of, capable of, look forward to, can’t help, give up, rely on, worry about, insist on, keep on, depend on (upon), busy, like, enjoy, continuo,prefer, admit, delay, deny, avoid, mind,and etc. “ Contoh-contoh :
- We are accustomed to sleeping late on weekends
- Donny is fond dancing
- Harry gave up smoking; his wife was happy
- We are looking forward to going back to school.
- The girls was busy writing a short story
- I prefer singing to dancing
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