Question

How is the underlined gerund used in the sentence? Stop talking for a few minutes, please. A. object of a preposition B. predicate nominative C. subject D. direct object

Answer 1

The gerund in this sentence must be "talking" as gerunds end with -ing, and this is the only dog in the sentence that ends with -ing.

It's an object of a verb (the verb is stop)- it's what the verb directs the action to - so it's the direct object (answer D).