Drag the correct grammatical labels to identify each -ing word's function.

You're chatting with a friend about weekend activities. Look at these sentences and label each -ing word correctly!

"Cooking is my favorite hobby." → Gerund (noun/subject)

"The boiling water splashed everywhere!" → Participle (adjective)

"I was watching a cooking show." → Participle (verb part)

Cooking → Gerund (noun/subject)

In "Cooking is my favorite hobby," you can replace "cooking" with a noun like "It" — so it's a gerund functioning as the subject.

boiling → Participle (adjective)

In "The boiling water," the word "boiling" describes the noun "water" — so it's a present participle functioning as an adjective.

watching → Participle (verb part)

In "I was watching," the -ing word combines with "was" to form the past continuous tense — so it's a present participle as part of the verb phrase.