Dear children,
Did you know almost 99.9% of chidlren today get sick due to bacteria? Bacteria is something that cuases sickness. A way to get sick due to bacteria is not washing your hands and then eating something. A good way to avoid getting sick is washing ur hands and taking showers. Always make sure you wash your hands before you rub ur noise tuach ur mouth or eat anything o that way you dont get sick.
hope this helps XD
If the underlined phrase is <em>born in New York in 1856, </em>then that would be a participial phrase, which often functions as an adjective in a sentence, like is the case here.
Gerund is always used as a noun, and infinitive has the form <em>to + verb </em>(to go, to be...)
