Question

Which sentence contains a gerund?



A)During the night, the temperature plummeted twenty degrees.
B)To navigate the winding road safely, we concentrated intensely.
C)On the first torrid day of summer, we always enjoy swimming.
D)The contemptible birds singing in the yard annoyed us all night.

Answer 1

I Believe Its C
On the first torrid day of summer, we always enjoy swimming. 

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is indeed letter C) On the first torrid day of summer, we always enjoy swimming.

Explanation:

Gerunds are words formed by adding -ing to verbs. Even though they look like verbs, they behave like nouns, having the same functions nouns have in a sentence. A gerund can, for example, function as the subject of a sentence or the object of a verb.

In letter C, we have precisely a gerund acting as the object of the verb "enjoy". Enjoy is a stative verb, or verb of feeling. Other stative verbs are like, love, hate, mind, and stand. These verbs often taken gerunds as their objects. For example:

- Would you mind watching the kids for a moment?

- She loves reading in the evening.

In "On the first torrid day of summer, we always enjoy swimming," "swimming" is a gerund functioning as the object of the verb "enjoy".