The old man was very slow to move to the starting line
Floating in the pool
Here is an example sentence using the term "floating quotation": The author used a floating quotation from a famous speech to emphasize the importance of freedom in his essay.
buoyancy.
'Floating' is the gerund. Therefore the gerund phrase is 'Floating down the river on a raft'.
In the sentence "Floating down the river on a raft was not Joel's idea of fun," the gerund phrase is "Floating down the river on a raft." This phrase functions as the subject of the sentence and describes the activity that Joel does not consider enjoyable. The gerund "floating" acts as a noun, representing the action of drifting on the river.
the intergalactic gang surrounded the floating building and killed everyone
what is the gerund phrase in this sentence, Floating down the river on a raft was not Joel's idea of fun.
Gravity keeps trees from floating about.
A corpuscle is a small free-floating cell, such as a blood cell.
I don't know what impurity is floating on this milk so I'm just going to throw it away.
a man found a dead person floating in a sea while fishing.
the piece of wood willfloat on the water