Determiners
Determiners and Gerunds
Determiners are utilized to introduce a noun or noun phrase.
Determiners are words such as this, those, my, their, which. They are special adjectives that are used before nouns.
Kinds of determiners:
- Articles: a/an, the.
- Demonstratives: this, that, these, those.
- Possessives: my, our, your, his, her, their, its.
- Quantifiers: a few, a little, much, many, a lot of, most, some, any, enough.
- Numbers: one, ten, some, any, many, a few, all, several, each, every, either, neither etc.
- Distributive: all, both, half, either, neither, each, every, only.
Gerund is a non-finite verb. It appears as an action word. However, it behaves like a thing. When “verb+ing” functions as a “noun and action word”, it is called a gerund.
Examples:
- Swimming is good exercise. (subject)
- The girls enjoy swimming. (direct object)
- The best exercise is swimming. (predicate nominative)
- She was scolded for swimming. (object of a preposition)
- A gerund phrase consists of a gerund and related words.
Example:
- Swimming in the lake is good exercise.
Functions:
Subject of the verb
- Swimming is a good exercise.
- Giving is better than receiving
Object of a transitive verb
- Stop writing.
- I like reading poetry.
- Working is praying.
Object of a preposition
- I am fond of catching fish.
- I am tired of writing.
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