Gerund phrases are used as nouns
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Awnser: Thoreau begins Civil Disobedience by saying that he agrees with the motto, "That government is best which governs least." Indeed, he says, men will someday be able to have a government that does not govern at all. As it is, government rarely proves useful or efficient. It is often "mistreat and unnatural" so that it no longer represents the will of the people. The Mexican-American War illustrates this phenomenon.
You could use teen mom amber, as an example such as her hitting and abusing drugs around her daughter, even though that is the past for her it still happened!!!