Gerund Phrases Rule!
Writers often use gerunds and gerund phrases.  It can be easier to write them than analyze their grammatical features, but if we have sufficient writing experiences with them, encounter them a lot, and review what's involved in them, then we can learn the grammar involved. This, then, is a "place" for our students to learn about and write gerund phrases, with the goals of sharing them and understanding how they work.
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Gerund Phrases as Subjects: from Gerund [swimming] --> Gerund Phrase
Sentence Combining: Combine these two short sentences into one sentence with a gerund phrase as the subject. "Swimming is amazing.  I like doing this in warm waters with colorful tropical fish."
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Change a sentence by changing a noun (such as the word "snow") into a gerund phrase.  Ex: 1.  "By March I was sick of SNOW." --> 2. "By March I was sick of [SHOVELING mountains of snow]." The gerund phrase is in brackets. Make up your own pair of sentences where you remove a noun like "snow" and add a gerund (like "shoveling") and then add more information (like "mountains of snow").  (Another example: Gertrude likes PIZZA with unusual toppings.  --> Gertrude enjoys [TOPPING pizza with marmalade, radishes, and marshmallows].
Write several creative and elaborated sentences with "gerund phrases" here.
Make your writing engaging by adding on to gerunds and making them phrases.
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