When a word has a negative connotation, that means that is suggests something bad. For instance, exploit suggests something bad while employ suggests something good.
Infamous: Negative
Infamous means popular from a bad deed.
Astute: Positive
Astute means smart or good at understanding people
Secure: Positive
Secure means safe. We normally pair "safe" with a sense of comfort.
Difficult: Negative
Difficult means hard, and most of the time people don't enjoy doing hard things.
Freedom: Positive
Freedom is the ability to do anything one desires without restraint.
Childish: Negative
To be childish is to be described as immature or to act lower than one's actual age.
Frivolous: Negative
Frivolous means to be useless. As humans, we always want to feel important or loved. The opposite would be to feel useless.
Reluctantly: Negative
To do something reluctantly is to do something not out of one's personal pleasure. This normally requires coaxing and typically does not promise rewards.
These are a few Examples:1. Singing is one of my favorite hobbies.2. Running is good exercise. 3. Sitting down and being lazy does not burn my calories. 4. I enjoy cooking with my mom.5. Justin loves texting his girlfriend.
Gerunds is one of three types of verbals.
Gerunds function as nouns in the sentence. Normally, a gerund is used as a thing or an idea and gerunds always end in "ing". They can function as subjects, direct objects, objects of the preposition, and predicate nouns.
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This would definitely be FALSE. Being able to distinguish the subjects and objects will help you to avoid confusion on which verb or pronoun to use. We always follow the rules in subject-verb agreement as well as the pronoun-antecedent rules. Knowing either the subject is plural or singular will give you an idea on what verb to use. Same goes with the antecedents and pronouns to use.
A. compound subject. Hope it helps. bye bye now