<span>He is highly regarded as an author. </span>
<span>fire melt's ice and ice should put out the fire, but his fiery love makes her cold heart grow colder, and vise vers</span>
Answer:
(B.) Reflexive should be the correct answer.
The gerund in the sentence provided above is backpacking. Gerunds are verbs in -ing form but function as a noun. In this sentence, it functions as a direct object because it answers the question "what". By this, we can construct the question "What popular pastime is being talked about?".
