GERUNDS
Read the following sentences. Smoking isn’t always good for your health. I like reading biographies. In the first sentence, smoking is the subject of the verb is. In the second sentence, reading is the object of the verb. smoking and reading are formed by adding – ing to the verbs smoke and read. In the second sentence, storybooks are the object of the reading. Thus, reading also acts as a noun and takes on an object of …