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Guest  +  21650 Fri, 06 Feb 04 02:43 PM
Do each of these sentences contain a gerund:

I was pleased with your helping your sister.

The teacher appreciated our listening to the speaker.

Through practice, she had improved her swimming. (is the comma in the right place?)

They awed the audience with their public speaking.

My mother approved of my running the Boston Marathon.

With all the work that needed to be done, I was annoyed with her lying down. (comma?)

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whl626  +  21688 Sat, 07 Feb 04 02:39 AM
All ... ing forms in your sentences are ' gerunds 'Smile [:)] If the ... ing form serves as an adjective then it is ' present participle ' instead. But it seems that all the above sentences serve only as ' noun '

It is better to say ' She has improved her swimming through practice ' . To use a phrase in front and separated by a comman normally happens on a sentence where the ' phrase ' is an adj modifying the subject.

eg. He was thrilled when he was asked to do public speaking.

Being asked to do public speaking, he was thrilled.

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