Read the sentences. Alaskan brown bears are known to be fierce and protective parents. Encountering a bear and its cub could be dangerous, and hikers should be particularly cautious. Which phrase is a gerund phrase?

A gerund phrase begins with a verb ending in -ing that functions as a noun. In “Encountering a bear and its cub could be dangerous,” “Encountering a bear” acts as the subject of the sentence, so it is the gerund phrase. “And protective parents” and “particularly cautious” are not gerund phrases, and “Alaskan brown bears” is a noun phrase.

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