Rewrite the following sentences, underline the gerunds in them and at the end of each sentence within parentheses indicate whether the gerund is used as a subject, direct object, object of a preposition, complement or as a predicate noun:1) Smoking is a bad habit.2) We have stopped writing.3) Rohan was punished for stealing.4) Reading is a good habit.5) The fish fell from the fishing-line.6) His profession is teaching.7) Swimming is good exercise.8) Are you sure about his leaving?9) I enjoy walking.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret