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How is the underlined gerund used in the sentence? help me please He hopes his hobby, cooking, will become his career. A. appositive B. predicate nominative C. subject D. object of a preposition
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How is the underlined gerund used in the sentence? help me please

He hopes his hobby, cooking, will become his career.

A.
appositive

B.
predicate nominative

C.
subject

D.
object of a preposition

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The gerund in the sentence is the word "cooking". The gerund used in the sentence is used as appositive. The answer is option A. An appositive is a noun or pronoun that is usually beside another noun and renames it to add more information about the subject. 
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