(a) As a Subject:
- Laughing is good for health.
- Eating is necessary for life.
(b) As an Object:
- He hates drinking.
- Stop running.
(c) As the object of a Preposition:
- Was she tired of sitting?
- She is very good in cooking.
(d) As complement of a Verb:
- My hobby is planting trees.
- TV to him is wasting time.
(e) As case in apposition to the Pronoun ‘It’
- It is no use repenting on your mistake.
- It is no use spending money on shares.
(f) Use of Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives with Gerunds, as
- She objects to your wasting time with friends.
- She insisted on his wasting the money.
