Question

Locate the complete gerund phrase and identify its use. She dreams of skiing in Switzerland.

Answer 1

The correct answer is: Skiing in Switzerland

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's understand, semmantically, and gramatically, each words in this sentence. First of all we have the subject "She". It's a personal pronoun and it means that it replaces a name. The seconde one is a verb "Dreams". We have "s" on the final of the verb because we have a singular third person on the present and because of that you need to conjugate the verb adding "s". The third one is a preposition "OF", that works to linking sentences. Finally we have the sentence with gerund. In this sentence, when you use a gerund, you want to show that it's something that this person makes as a routine, something that this person does.

Answer 2

Answer: The complete gerund phrase is "skiing in Switzerland". It has been used as a noun and its function is object of the preposition.

Explanation: A gerund phrase is a phrase made up of a gerund, that is to say a non-finite verb form that ends in -ing, and its modifiers. In the sentence provided, the gerund phrase is "skiing in Switzerland" since it includes the gerund "skiing" and the prepositional phrase "in Switzerland", which is modifying the gerund. Moreover, "skiing in Switzerland" is acting as a noun and its syntactic function is object of the preposition since it completes the meaning of the preposition that comes before the gerund phrase: "of".