Hi girls! There are some amazing articles with gerunds from Vlados.

1. Lower Back Ache? Be Active and Wait It Out, New Guidelines Say https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/health/lower-back-pain-surgery-guidelines.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region

1.  In making the new recommendations for the treatment of most people with lower back pain, the group is bucking what many doctors do and changing its previous guidelines, which called for medication as first-line therapy.( making – gerund NPA; bucking – gerund NPA; changing – gerund NPA)
2. The recommendations come as the United States is struggling with an epidemic of opioid addiction…
(struggling – gerund NPA).
3. In recent years, a number of states have enacted measures aimed at curbing prescription painkillers.( curbing – gerund NPA).
4. The new guidelines said that doctors should avoid prescribing opioid painkillers for relief of back pain…(prescribing – gerund NPA).
5. She ended up getting anti-inflammatory medication and doing physical therapy. A few months later, her back stopped hurting. (getting – gerund NPA; hurting – gerund NPA).
6. Many people with chronic back pain tend to shut down, avoiding their usual activities, afraid of making things worse… (avoiding – gerund NPA; making – gerund NPA).
7. Helping them is not a matter of prescribing drugs but rather teaching them to set goals and work toward returning to an active life, even if they still have pain.( helping – gerund as the subject NPA; prescribing – gerund as the subject NPA; returning – gerund as the subject NPA).

2. California, Parched for 5 Years, Is Now Battered by Waterhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/us/california-storms.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
By THOMAS FULLERFEB. 18, 2017

1. The frequent winter storms are taking a toll on other parts of the state’s infrastructure, with landslides closing a number of roads. (taking – gerund NPA).
2. In a sign of the abundance of water, Southern California is no longer drawing from the Colorado River… (drawing – gerund NPA).
3. On Friday, as the storm was pushing through Southern California, the snowpack in the Sierra over all was 174 percent of normal… (pushing – gerund NPA)

3. Legacy of Rio Olympics So Far 

Is Series of Unkept Promiseshttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/sports/olympics/rio-stadiums-summer-games.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region

1.  Rio, however, is experiencing something exceptional: Less than six months after the Summer Games ended, the host city’s Olympic legacy is decaying rapidly.( experiencing – gerund NPA; decaying – gerund NPA).

2.  The arena that hosted taekwondo and fencing was to be transformed into a school. ( fencing – gerund as the subject NPA).
3. The decay of Olympic sites is happening as a financial crisis engulfs federal, state and municipal governments. ( happening – gerund NPA).
4.  “Spending is prohibited… ( spending – gerund as the subject NPA).
5.  … “the path to implementing a legacy has been given.”( implementing – gerund as the subject NPA).
6.  … to bid on administering the Olympic Park, but there were no bidders. ( administrating – gerund as the subject NPA).
7.  … the company is in the process of striking a deal with Rio’s city government to sell them to civil servants. ( striking – gerund NPA)

Articles with gerunds

Good evening!

I tried to see the difference between gerund and participle 1. That is why I do not have many examples. I hope that you will like my articles anyway :)


TU CAN PLAY THAT GAME
Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel searching for consistency as his side head to Benfica

1. after setting a new group-stage – NPA
2. ahead of taking on Benfica – NPA
3. with 18-year-old Dzenis Burnic making his German league debut – NPA
4. could also start after coming off the bench at the weekend – NPA
5. after struggling for both form and fitness  – NPA

Jaguar spotting in the Brazilian jungle

1. Jaguar spotting in the Brazilian jungle – NPA
2. The prospect of seeing these gorgeous felines – NPA
3. Arcana Mundi guarantees at least one jaguar sighting – NPA
4. if there is no sighting – NPA
5. we have 16 sightings of jaguars – NPA
6. banned hunting – NPA
7. delighted in posing for our cameras – NPA

Carfentanyl: Australia issues warning over deadly drug

1. three similar drugs after lobbying from the US – NPA
2. Even touching carfentanyl posed a danger – NPA

Hello everyone, who is reading this message right now. I think it would be cool for us(humanities) to read some news about modern technology. Enjoy ^_^

Dubai Plans a Taxi That Skips the Driver, and the Roads

1.     '...in the United Arab Emirates, may soon climb aboard automated flying taxis, soaring over busy streets and past the desert city’s  ...' - gerundial phrase, nominal element expresses by a noun in the common case. 

2.     '...Passenger drones, capable of carrying a single rider and a small suitcase...' - NPA 

3.     '...the director general of Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, said on Monday, adding that the emirate would “spare no effort to launch” ...' - NPA 

4.     '...which depicts a man boarding the vessel, buckling into a race car-style harness and tapping his destination on a touch screen before taking off....' - gerundial phrase, nominal elemet expressed by a noun in the common case, NPA 

5.     '...began a trial program last year using automated cars produced by France’s Easymile....' - NPA 

What Are Your Rights if Border Agents Want to Search Your Phone?

1.     'But activists say inspecting a digital device is far more intrusive than inspecting a suitcase.' - NPA 

2.     '...agents should be able to go rifling through that trove of private data...' - 

3.     'You may end up losing your device, since agents could...' - NPA 

4.     '...unlocking the phone would allow officers to sift through private Facebook posts...' - NPA 

5.     'Some activists fear gaining access to social media accounts will become a greater focus for border agents. ' - NPA 

6.     '...a very small step for them to start doing that to Americans, as well...'- NPA 

7.     '...suggested that people buy “burner phones” that they can discard before entering the airport.' - NPA 

8.     'Ms. Cope said people should power down their devices before getting to the airport' - NPA

9. '...technical aspects of keeping your data safe...' - NPA as attribute

10. 'They just started attacking me verbally' - NPA 

11. 'After allowing the Homeland Security officer to examine his phone...' - NPA 

Pet Projects of the New Billionaires

1.     '...a waitress walking by stopped to peer at the cover.' - NPA

2.     '...but he doesn’t actually end up mining the asteroids and...' - NPA

3.     'At times while reading the book...' - NPA 

4.     '...have all tried to take hoi polloi on a written tour of that peculiar area south of San Francisco, whisking them around like Midwesterners in a celebrity-tour van in Beverly Hills.' - NPA

5.     '...is debating dropping out of college...' - NPA 

6.     '...dream of disrupting archetypal norms....' - NPA 

7.     '...the ending by pointing out that it doesn’t end well for Burnham...' - NPA

8.     '...between graciously beautiful and being almost too explicative...' - NPA 

9. '...talking about these strange men and women ...' - NPA

10. 'Changing the world...' - NPA

11. 'I found myself getting frustrated was with Wolfe’s decision' - gerundial phrase, nominal element expresses by a  pronoun in objective case. 

12. 'writing as if she is documenting history' - 

13. '...with the goal of reinventing the area... ' - NPA 

14. '...by pointing out that it doesn’t end well...' - NPA 

15. '...by bringing you along on her journey...' - NPA 

16. '...One evening while partying...' - NPA 

17. '...panic attack just thinking of working in a place like that...' - NPA 

18. '...lunatics who are intent on making a dent in the universe...' - NPA 

19. '...I was left wondering how many more dents our universe can take...' - NPA 

Good evening, everyone! It was much more difficult to find gerunds in the articles than infinitives, but I made my best. I hope you'll enjoy the articles I've chosen. :) 

You're never alone at the Museum of Broken relationships full article

1. I hate throwing perfectly functional items in landfills... - NPA 

2. But she was surprised that it's become a family destination for parents looking for ways to talk about love with their teenage children. - NPA 

3. Two artists opened the Croatian museum after breaking up and deciding to curate the debris from their relationship.- NPA 

Is Sweden's feminist agenda working? full article

1. ...when he banned funding for groups that support abortion. - NPA 
2. This week, it received widespread condemnation after a trade visit to Iran, for instructing female officials to comply with Iran's headscarf law. - NPA 
3. Last year, a report by a coalition of civil society and women's organisations condemned Sweden's continuing arms exports to countries that violate women's rights. - NPA  (gerundial phrase)
4. And she says it has been slow to move against sexist advertising, despite pre-election promises. - NPA

EU citizens 'denied residency documents' full article

1. The Home Office said securing the status of EU migrants was a priority. - NPA 

2. He said he had been refused a residency document because he had spent time studying in the UK without paying for health insurance. - NPA

3....and Switzerland the right to live permanently in the UK, without having to prove they bought insurance. - NPA

4. A Home Office spokesman said EU citizens made a vital contribution and securing their status - and those of British nationals elsewhere in the EU - was a priority. - NPA

5. ...that exercising Treaty rights includes a requirement to have comprehensive sickness insurance and sufficient resources to not become a burden on the social assistance system of the United Kingdom. - NPA

Gerunds in articles

Hello! In this post I'd like to share sentences with gerunds which I've found in some articles. While reading these articles you can travel without leaving a room and find out something new about our world as well as relax. Enjoy!:)

Cuba travel guide: 10 tips for first time travel to Cuba

1. Visiting Cuba is a highlight-packed sensory overload, especially if you take the time to understand the past political strife that has shaped a nation that stands on the cusp of a social and economic revolution.- NPA

2. Being able to hail a taxi and negotiate the destination and fare are vital to getting around, and being able to order food and drink is handy.- NPA

3. Of greater concern, my Airbnb host Gustavo warns, is the risk of dengue fever, which can be debilitating. - NPA

4. Cubans are, by and large, exceptionally outgoing people.- NPA

5. Approach these interactions expecting to pay for a slice of their time and local knowledge, which is sometimes well worth it.- NPA

6. You might think the massive, curvaceous American cars for which Havana is famous are a myth, and finding one is like tracking down a white whale.- NPA;NPA

7. Knowing a little Spanish helps a lot.- NPA

8. Even better is that you'll probably be seated next to some locals heading off to work, with Cuba's taxis running more like a bus service that picks up and sets down various fares during any given trip.- NPA;NPA

9. Havana has some brilliant museums, featuring the artwork of abundantly talented locals, plus a number of institutions dedicated to detailing the nation's history of political instability, bloodshed and proud defiance.- NPA;NPA

10. The Museo de la Revolucion in the Old Havana part of town is an essential stop – behind the stunning façade are hundreds of artefacts, photos, weapons and blow-by-blow explanations of events.- NPA

11. Perhaps most poignant of all are the bullet holes in the walls, a sobering reminder that this beautiful metropolis was once, as the museum name suggests, the site of bloody revolution.- NPA

12, Said to be the oldest stone fort in the Americas, it's also home to an excellent museum highlighting the nation's proud maritime past.- NPA

13. It's a great spot to enjoy the passing parade of classic American cars, too.- NPA

14. Cuba is much more than just Havana, although you can easily spend a week wandering the old town, poking around Vedado, and taking in the neighbouring coastal settlements.- NPA;NPA;NPA

15. You can take a 20-minute taxi ride to out to Cojimar, the setting for the Ernest Hemingway novel The Old Man and the Sea and the place where Hemingway kept his own boat.- NPA

Bob Marley Mausoleum, Jamaica: Getting to know Bob Marley's Jamaica

1. He  died in Miami trying to get home from a cancelled European tour.-NPA

2. A tour of Good Hope is a great way to learn about Jamaica's colonial history, walking through the renovated Great House and visiting the onsite pottery workshop before a barbecue lunch.- NPA;NPA

Sir Bani Yas island, United Arab Emirates: Exotic Arab escape

1. Instantly I'm descending at disconcerting speed, the pressure building in my ears ...- NPA;NPA

2. So now it's just a question of how long I can hold my breath while collecting as many oysters as possible.- NPA

3. They begin as nine-year-old boys, learning to pry open the oysters with a lethally sharp knife to search for the elusive jewels.- NPA

4. At 12, they are old enough to dive, working from sunrise to sunset.- NPA

5. The odds of finding a pearl are well over 2000 to one.- NPA

6. Not that guests who try the three-hour pearl diving experience at Sir Bani Yas Island – a three hour drive and 25-minute ferry ride from the city of Abu Dhabi – leave the dhow empty handed.- NPA

7. Which is ironic because it was the cultured pearl that killed off pearl diving, and we have an Australian to thank for that.- NPA

8. British-born marine biologist William Saville-Kent is credited with being the first to produce both blister and spherical pearls of commercial quality.- NPA

9. Bani Yas is the name of the Bedouin tribe who went from being part-time pearl divers to full-time rulers by the time oil was discovered in 1958. -NPA

10. Today that guest lodge is the centre point of Anantara Sir Bani Yas Island Resorts, spread over three contrasting but luxurious properties.- NPA

11. Al Sahel, within the wildlife park, has an African safari atmosphere with antelope and other herbivores grazing on the lawns and drinking from the pools.- NPA;NPA

12. Undiscovered until 1992, it is the only known pre-Islamic Christian site in the UAE – and a key site on the guided history tours departing Desert Sands each day.- NPA

13. So in 1977 he banned hunting on the island and began planting 2.8 million acacia and mangrove trees to provide the habitat for his private wildlife park.- NPA

14. Gibbs and Gabriel, brothers from the same litter, lying next to each other in the sun, having just caught and devoured a sizeable Barbary sheep.- NPA, PA

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

Gerunds in articles

Hello!
Today I have found some interesting articles with quite a lot of gerunds and I would like to share them with you.
Any feedback is much appreciated. :)

1.   EU issues 'final warnings' to five countries over air pollution breaches (full version)

·     …for failing to address repeated breaches of air pollution limits for nitrogen dioxide, – NPA

·     …before reaching the ground… – NPA

·     …include reducing road traffic volume, encouraging a switch to electric cars and limiting the use of diesel cars. – NPA

 
2. 11 best hotels in the middle of nowhere (full version)

·     Whether planning a digital detox or an epic honeymoon… – NPA

·     While trekking through the woods… – NPA

·     …a netted terrace for sleeping under the stars. – NPA

·     Adventurous types will enjoy excursions including horseback riding through the sand dunes, hiking up volcanoes, stargazing and biking. – NPA

·     But if lounging around sounds more appealing… – NPA

·     Choose between diving in the revived coral reefs or simply laze in the sun… – NPA

·     …but there's no risk of going without. – NPA

·     Who says camping has to be down and dirty? – NPA

 

3. Why buying used cars could put your safety at risk (full version)

·     Why buying used cars could put your safety at risk? – NPA

·      ...before selling it back to the dealership… – NPA

·  …executing a factory reset on your car only resets the car... – NPA 

·     When Henderson approached car makers about letting (1) car owners wipe apps, companies were concerned about people not being able(2) to do it properly. – 1) NPA; 2) gerundial phrase, NPA.

·     Reselling connected devices causes problems…  – NPA

·     Selling homes with connected devices can be a security issue. – NPA

·     …putting the onus on consumers to maintain proper security may make people hesitant about buying any used technology. – NPA

·     I would probably consider buying new rather than second-hand for this reason. – NPA