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.
Gerunds are distinguished grammatically from other uses of a verb's-ing form: the present participle (which is a non-finite verb form like the gerund, but is adjectival or adverbial in function), and the pure verbal noun or deverbal noun. gerund behaves as a verb within a clause (so that it may be modified by an adverb or have an object); but the resulting clause as a whole (sometimes consisting of only one word, the gerund itself) functions as a noun within the larger sentence.