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    English-2
    Grade-8
    Easy

    Question

    Choose the sentence in which the gerund is the subject of the verb?

    1. Sleeping is his favorite pastime.    
    2. I love sleeping.    
    3. I like eating apples.    
    4. He loves accumulating wealth.    

    hintHint:

    A gerund is a non-finite verb ending in -ing (root verb + ing) acting as a noun which is the subject or object of the sentence.

    The correct answer is: Sleeping is his favorite pastime.

      'Sleeping is his favourite pastime' is the sentence in which the gerund is the subject of the verb.
      The verbal noun is sleeping. To sleep is the verb which ending in -ing i.e. sleeping and acting as a noun in the sentence as the subject.

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