Best movie with a gerund in the title

[RicochetShaw]

If you don't know.... Gerunds function as nouns. Thus, gerunds will be subjects, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions. Present participles, on the other hand, complete progressive verbs or act as modifiers



My choice is:

The Killing

[SenorSpielbergo]

**please delete this post**

[Antonio]

Three horror greats:

THE SHINING
THE CHANGELING
THE HAUNTING (1963)

Thanks for the grammar lesson, RicShaw

[Trinity]

Kissing Jessica Stein

[phelonious]

Yes, thanks the lesson.

American Wedding

[Sad man]

Trainspotting.

[Hucksta G]

If its just one movie mine would be
Saving Private Ryan

if its more
Raging Bull
Bowling for Columbine
Good Will Hunting *play on words*
The Shining
The Wedding Singer
Bringing Out the Dead

[Jerk Shapiro]

Originally posted by RicochetShaw
If you don't know.... Gerunds function as nouns. Thus, gerunds will be subjects, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions. Present participles, on the other hand, complete progressive verbs or act as modifiers






Holy shit :eek:


Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...



Raging Bull

[Guy Strong]

yeah ...I'll go with Raging Bull too

[ANavissi500]

Singin' in the Rain (its close enough)
Training Day

[blankpage]

Sleeping with the Enemy


Not a great movie, but hey, all the good ones were taken.

[my_name_is_neo]

Oiginally posted by Jerk Shapiro
Holy shit :eek:

That was my first reaction upon reading that, too.

As for my picks:

Well, The Shining is the only one I can think of. Haven't seen Raging Bull, but I plan to sometime soon.

[Hannibal21]

RAGING BULL

Uh, yeah, that's THE best one.

[Nate6]

Originally posted by RicochetShaw
If you don't know.... Gerunds function as nouns. Thus, gerunds will be subjects, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions. Present participles, on the other hand, complete progressive verbs or act as modifiers

I'm on Christmas break, I don't need to listen to that in class for another week! So shut up! ;)

Raging Bull

[NormanBates]

What a great thread.

[zeppelin]

I think most of you have the wrong idea of what a gerund is. It isn't any word that ends in "-ing," it is a word that ends in "-ing" that acts as a noun. Thus, The Killing would be a gerund since "killing" is used as a noun and is the subject, but Raging Bull would not, because "raging" is used as an adjective there, and is not the subject. But then again, that's only what I was taught, and I could be wrong.

And my pick is The Shining.

[therealjohng]

How about The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three?

[Benny]

Wedding is NOT a gerund! Not every word ending in -ing is a gerund, much like not every word ending in -ly is an adverb, like family. Sorry, I thought I had to add on to RicShaw's lesson.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Finding Nemo or Being John Malcovich yet.

[Indy in IN]

Originally posted by NormanBates
What a great thread.

Yeah.....

Spanking the Monkey


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