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Is it right to use the gerund in these sentences? We listened to the old man TELLING his story from beginning to end. Listen! Can you hear a baby CRYING? I look out of the window and saw Dan RIDDING his bike along the road. I thought I heard somebody SAYING "Hi" , so I looked round. We watch two men CRAWLING across the garden and CLIMBING through an open window into the house. Everybody heard the bomb EXPLODING. It was tremendous noise. Oh! I can feel something RUNNING up my leg! It must be an insect. I heard somebody SLAMMING the door in the middle of the night. It woke me up. When we got home, we found a cat SLEEPING on the kitchen table.
4 de out de 2015 16:57
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They are all good (but like Adrian said riding is the correct spelling )

However they are NOT gerunds . Your sentences are all using the present continuous tense!

I gerund or verbal noun is a NOUN in the form of the continous tense of the verb used to describe the act of doing something:

I like (the act of ) reading .

After reading the newspaper I went for a walk.

Walking is good excercise.

4 de outubro de 2015

Is it right to use the gerund in these sentences?

We listened to the old man TELLING his story from beginning to end.
Listen! Can you hear a baby CRYING?
I look out of the window and saw Dan RIDING his bike along the road.
I thought I heard somebody SAYING "Hi" , so I looked round.
We watched two men CRAWLING across the garden and CLIMBING through an open window into the house.
Everybody heard the bomb EXPLODE. It was a tremendous noise.
Oh! I can feel something RUNNING up my leg! It must be an insect.
I heard somebody SLAMMING the door in the middle of the night. It woke me up.
When we got home, we found a cat SLEEPING on the kitchen table.

 

Only one gerund is incorrect because a bomb exploding is instantaneous if the bombs were plural then it would be fine, the only other mistake is a spelling mistake!

 

Hope this helps

 

Bob

4 de outubro de 2015

Is it right to use the gerund in these sentences?

We listened to the old man TELLING his story from beginning to end.
Listen! Can you hear a baby CRYING?
I look out of the window and saw Dan riding his bike along the road.
I thought I heard somebody SAYING "Hi" , so I looked round.
We watch two men CRAWLING across the garden and CLIMBING through an open window into the house.
Everybody heard the bomb EXPLODING. It was a tremendous noise.
Oh! I can feel something RUNNING up my leg! It must be an insect.
I heard somebody SLAMMING the door in the middle of the night. It woke me up.
When we got home, we found a cat SLEEPING on the kitchen table.

4 de outubro de 2015
I looked out of the window and saw Dan RIDING his bike along the road. All the others are correct.
4 de outubro de 2015
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