A gerund is a type of verbal that ends in -ing and is used like a noun. Examples of gerunds include actions like chewing, writing, whispering, and snoring. Similar to infinitives, gerunds can also function as the subject of the sentence, the direct object, or as the subject complement.
She taught her the names of things by writing the words on Helenâs hand. Helen's first word was water. She learned this word when Anne put Helen's hand under some water and wrote W,A,T,E,R on her hand. Then she learnt the words with this method. In 1890, Helenâs family sent her to the Perkins Institute to learn how to speak and communicate.
Helen Keller: The Wild Child. Soon after the incident with the cradle, Kate Keller came across a book written several years earlier by Charles Dickens about the education of Laura Bridgman. Laura was a deaf-blind girl who had been taught to communicate by the director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston.