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Locate the gerund. Since it is used as a noun, determine its noun use.

Reckless driving is dangerous.

Gerund:
Use:

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Reckless is the gerund and it is being used as an subject of this sentence (which would mean it is a noun).
User Ilya Bystrov
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Answer:

  • Gerund: Driving.
  • Use: Subject.

Step-by-step explanation:

The gerund would be: driving.

Whereas the use would be: subject.

The adjective reckless modifies the verb driving turning the phrase into a noun, reckless driving, whose main function is as a subject for the rest of the sentence.

Another example would be: creative filmmaking is not common nowadays.

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