The Usage Of Gerunds In Articles

Good afternoon everyone! After I got down to work on these articles, it turned out that to find examples of gerunds is much more difficult than to find infinitives. Anyway, here are some of that I did manage to find.

US 'unwavering' in support for Nato allies, says Pence (read full article)

1. President Donald Trump warned before taking office that... - the NPA gerund as an adverbial modifier of time

California 'bombogenesis', biggest storm in years, kills two (read full article)

1. Another motorist at the same junction was saved after climbing on to the roof of his car. - The NPA gerund as an adverbial modifier of time 

2. ...he said, while barricading his home with sandbags. - The NPA gerund as an adverbial modifier of time 

3. ...rain and melting snow caused fears of flooding at the tallest dam in the country... - the NPA gerund as an attribute

Four stars for  Hugh Jackman's last Wolverine film (read full article)

1. If you think that salty language will be Mangold's primary means of testing the permissive limits... - the NPA gerund as an attribute

2. ...via the maximally gory means of blading them through the head in gouging, spurting detail. - The NPA gerund as an attribute

3. ...especially when half the time it's a child doing the slicing and dicing. - The NPA gerunds as an objects

(At this point I found out that I shouldn't have defined syntactic functions of the gerunds. Late is better than never)

4. ... keeps from getting overly sentimental... - NPA gerund