Parts of the Sentence – Verbals – Gerunds
A gerund always ends in –ing and is used as a noun. Example: Eating is fun.
The gerund can be a subject (Eating is fun.); a direct object (I like eating.); a predicate nominative (A fun time is eating.); an appositive (A fun time, eating, takes much time.); an indirect object (I give eating too much time.); or an object of a preposition (I give much time to eating.)
