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In the following sentence, which word is a gerund?


Sleeping is an essential part of maintaining the body's health.

health

maintaining

essential

sleeping

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the gerund in the sentence sleeping gerunds can be used as now and end in in 

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Answer: D) Sleeping.

Explanation: a gerund is a word that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun (it acts like the subject or the direct object in a sentence), in English the gerunds end in "-ing". In the given sentence: "Sleeping is an essential part of maintaining the body's health" the gerund is "sleeping" because we can see that it has a verb form (ending in -ing) but it is acting like a noun, more specifically it is the subject of the sentence.

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