Berikut merupakan kondisi yang mengharuskan penggunaan gerund:
1. Verb sebagai Subject
Contoh: Singing makes me happy.
Exercising regularly makes our body healthy.
2. Verb sebagai Object/complement
Contoh: Popi likes shopping.
My hobby is cooking.
3. Verb sebagai prepositional object (kata kerja terletak setelah kata depan)
Contoh: I'm sorry for disturbing you.
On opening the door, I found him lying on the floor.
4. Setelah Conjunction/kata hubung
Contoh: Before becoming a president, Susilo was an army.
Bella refused to meet Edward although missing him so much.
5. Setelah possesive adjective
Contoh: I'm annoyed about Yusi's forgeting to pay.
Her teaching is fascinating
6. Setelah istilah khusus
a. no use (tiada guna)
b. to be worth (bermanfaat)
c. to be busy (sibuk)
d. can't help/can't bear (tidak bisa menahan)
7. Setelah verb tertentu
admit appreciate avoid advise claim consider contemplate
delay deny detest dislike escape endure excuse
face feel like finish forgive give up imagine involve
miss mention mind resume risk resist prefer
practice suggest report regret recall resent quit
etc.Contoh: Jacob admitted stealing the money
Would you mind helping me?
8. Setelah verb/adjective tertentuyang selalu dirangkai dengan 'to' namun harus diikuti gerund.
advance to get used to object to
confess to to be used to look forward to
devote to to be accustomed to key to
dedicate to to be opposed toContoh: Ahmad confessed to stealing the jewels
I am used to eating gudeg.
Sumber: Djuharie, Otong Setiawan. 2008. Sentence Writing.
Bandung: Yrama Widya
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