Gerunds as nouns
Recognise a gerund — an -ing form of a verb that works as a noun to name an activity — whether it is the subject ("Swimming keeps me fit"), the object ("I enjoy swimming") or comes after a preposition ("She is good at swimming"); tell it apart from an -ing verb in a progressive tense ("She is swimming") and from an -ing word describing a noun ("the swimming dog"); and use this to understand and write sentences clearly.
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KS3 English
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KS3 English supports Gerunds as nouns. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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- In sentences such as "Reading calms me down", "My brother hates waiting" and "We talked about camping", picks out each -ing word that names an activity and shows it is doing a noun’s job, for example by swapping in a noun ("Music calms me down")
- Sorts the -ing words in "The baby is crying", "Crying woke the neighbours" and "the crying baby" into part of a verb, a gerund naming an activity, and a word describing a noun, and explains the clue in each sentence
- Writes sentences that use a gerund as the subject, as the object and after a preposition, and explains what a sentence such as "Her singing woke the baby" means
“If your child reads "Swimming keeps me fit" and then "She is swimming", can they tell you that in the first sentence "swimming" names an activity (like a noun), but in the second it shows what someone is doing right now?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Grammar & Punctuation
- Age range
- Ages 11–12
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