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Verb and Gerund

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of The Study
For every human, language is one important things to communicate to each other. Because language is one media to make one relationship and know the other people by the communication.

There are many language in the world. One of that is English as international language. English is the one of international language because of almost the people in the world know English as a second language after their mother language.
English have rules to make communication better in usage. Better in oral and writing. We can say the rules as the grammar. Grammar is the rules in the English. Gerund is one of part in grammar. 1.2 Scope of the Study
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e) The object of reflexive (with intransitive)
• She is in the habit of oversleeping herself = habit alone slept late (slept too long)

2.2.3 Gerunds with genitive (Possession)
Noun or pronoun, provided that indicates a person or animal, must be in the genitive case (genitive case), when the noun or pronoun is placed in front of the gerund.
• He was displeased at the ice cream vendor 's not coming
• I am pleased at your coming .

For example:
a) using gerund is preceded by a noun or pronoun that follows genitive this sometimes happens:
• This was a creative work of my doing = This is the creative work I 'm doing. my - genitive pronoun doing - gerund
• That building was of an architect 's designing = The building was designed by the architect. architect 's - genitive noun designing - gerund
b) Sometimes the letter "a" is placed in front of the gerund in the sense of the preposition. Here "a" is an alteration or abbreviation of the preposition on:
• The man has gone a hunting .
• He has gone a-fishing .
2.2.4 Who Owns the-ing form
Besides gerund, present participle is still there and the original noun, we must distinguish clearly.
For example:
a) A sleeping-carriage (= a carriage used for sleeping) = train / wagon (to) sleep.
Sleeping is a gerund here.
b) A sleeping child (= a Child That Is sleeping) = a sleeping child.
Here sleepingmerupakan present participle used as an adjective.

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