1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Vlada [557]
3 years ago
9

Hiking is a pleasant activity. how does the underlined gerund function in the sentence?

English
2 answers:
Zarrin [17]3 years ago
5 0

as a subject

The subject of the sentence is who or what the sentence is about. Most of the time in simple sentences like this one, the subject is at the beginning of the sentence. A gerund is a verb that acts like a noun and ends in -ing.

Direct objects receive the action of the verb. This sentence does not have an action verb so it does not have a direct object. The indirect object receives the direct object. For example. I gave Jack the ball. Ball is the direct object because it receives the action "gave". I also think about it in terms of what do I touch first if I'm going to do the action. Then the indirect object is Jack because he receives the ball. He is where I'd go to second. An appositive is a noun that renames or describes another noun. It is usually set off by commas. For example, Jack, my brother, took the ball. My brother is the appositive because it is renaming or describing who Jack is.

olga55 [171]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

The answer is letter D. as a subject.

Explanation:

Gerunds are words formed by adding -ing to verbs. Even though they look like verbs, they behave like nouns, having the same functions nouns have in a sentence. A gerund can, for example, function as the subject of a sentence.

The subject of a sentence is what the sentence is about, the topic of the sentence.

Taking the information above into consideration, and also the fact that the only gerund in the sentence "Hiking is a pleasant activity" is the word "hiking", we can safely say that the gerund functions as a subject.

Hiking is what the sentence is about. Everything that comes after it has the purpose of giving us information about hiking. We get to know that hiking is an activity. We get to know not only that it is activity, but also that it is a pleasant one. We could dissect the sentence in the following way:

- Hiking --> subject

- is --> third-person singular liking verb

- a pleasant activity --> subject complement

You might be interested in
Muslims were not interested in knowledge and most could not read or write true or false
olga2289 [7]

Answer:

False

Explanation:

5 0
3 years ago
Write an argument essay on any topic , it must include a claim, reasons /evidence/ warrant, counter claim and rebuttal.
eduard

Answer:

What do you want the topic on?

8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Does anyone like billy bob tanley
Len [333]

Answer:

...who?

Explanation:

3 0
2 years ago
Please Help!!!
melamori03 [73]

Answer:

Formulate and devise. They both mean to create a plan of some sort, while all the other words have to relation to each other. Another trick is to put the words into sentences and see if they deliver the same message.

7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Read the following excerpt from Sandra Cisneros’s story "Mericans."
kenny6666 [7]

The statement that describes the irony in the narrator's observation that the couple is "not from here" is "the narrator is not from 'here' either," option A.

<h3>What is irony?</h3>

Irony is usually described as a situation where the consequences or outcome is different from what we initially expected. Here, however, we are looking for the irony found in the narrator's words in the story "Mericans."

In this case, the irony is not about the situation or its outcome per se. It relates more to who is saying what about whom. The girl who narrates the story is "not from here," which means she is not completely American. She is of Mexican origin, but she still judges the couple she sees by saying they were clearly "not from here."

In other words, the irony is that everyone is "not from here" to someone. The narrator is "not from here" in the sense that she is Mexican. The couple is "not from here" in the sense that they are not Catholics.

With the information above in mind, we can choose option A as the correct answer.

Learn more about irony here:

brainly.com/question/11821145

#SPJ1

8 0
1 year ago
Other questions:
  • Which word is an adverb?<br><br> Andy usually gets to work on time.
    10·2 answers
  • 5. And summer's lease hath all too short a date
    14·1 answer
  • Why is Agent Pelton finally concerned at the end of chapter
    5·1 answer
  • How does Jason Zimmerman story contribute to the central idea of the article
    13·1 answer
  • How are inferences made while reading
    10·1 answer
  • Q.16. of the deadlines is met. O Neither No​
    8·1 answer
  • Can someone please Paraphrase this:
    12·2 answers
  • Help me with this answer <br> (no links)
    15·2 answers
  • Which sentence uses a comma correctly? *
    11·2 answers
  • Read the passage below, and list all the compound nouns, identifying them as open, closed, or hyphenated.
    9·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!