Gerund : backpacking
Use: Predict noun
In the sentence "Throughout history, people have turned great ideas into useful inventions" the word ideas is the object direct.
The direct object of a verb is the thing being acted upon. A direct object comes after a transitive verb. Direct objects can be nouns, pronouns, phrases, or clauses. Sometimes direct objects are single words.
Direct objects can also follow verbals—infinitives, gerunds, and participles.
B. a rash struck those who had been slashed by catus needles
C. Diez got in a fistfight with his cyote trainee
D. the group was spotted by a Border Patrol helicopter
The correct answer is #2
David, be sure to mind your p's and q's.
Joan remarked, "That advertisement says, Free movie tickets for the first 25 people."
B.
Joan remarked, "That advertisement says, 'Free movie tickets for the first 25 people'."
C.
Joan remarked, "That advertisement says, "Free movie tickets for the first 25 people."
D.
Joan remarked, "That advertisement says, 'Free movie tickets for the first 25 people.'"