Tongue is for tasting and the nose is used for smelling.
Yes, a gerund is used an a noun, for example "They heard the crunching of ghouls loudly crushing skulls."; "crunching" is a gerund (object of the verb hear).
In this sentence "preparing dinner" is the gerund phrase. A gerund is a verb doing the job of a noun. Preparing is the gerund form of the verb prepare.
An example of a gerund used as a direct object is "She enjoys swimming." In this sentence, "swimming" is a gerund that acts as the direct object of the verb "enjoys."
A gerund phrase becomes an action verb by appending the suffix, "ing" to a noun.
Example sentence for a gerund as the object of a preposition:I bought new pole for fishing.
A gerund phrase functions as a noun in a sentence. It can be used as the subject of a sentence, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Gerunds are formed by adding "-ing" to a verb.
A gerund can be used as a predicate noun when it functions as the subject complement following a linking verb. For example, in the sentence "His favorite hobby is painting," "painting" is a gerund functioning as the predicate noun.
A gerund verbal may only be used as a noun.
a gerund is a verb used as a noun that ends in -ing and an infinitive is a verb used as an adjective and often ends in -ing or -ed
Gerunds are used as nouns. In this case, the gerund (laughing) is the subject of the sentence.
yes Delivering can be a verb or a gerund. A gerund is a verb that ends with -ing, but is used as a noun in the sentence.