CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. 1  Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification applicants must have. Three years or more of postsecondary (college-level) engineering education. 2  Land Surveyor-in-Training (LSIT) certification applicants must have. Two years of postsecondary (college-level) land surveying education.
A gerund is a verb form that ends in-ing. A gerund phrase includes the gerund, plus any modifiers and complements. Gerunds and gerund phrases always function as nouns. They can act as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, or objects of a preposition in a sentence.ometimes a word or phrase appears to be a verb when, in fact, itâs something else. Itâs important to look at the function that a word or phrase plays in a sentence before determining its part of speech.
Meanings of the term gerund as used in relation to various languages are listed below. 1  Latin has the non-finite gerundium, formed with in -andum, -endum and noun inflexions. It is used as the syntactic equivalent to a noun, except in the Nominative and Accusative cases, where the infinitive was used.