In which sentence is the word sleeping a gerund? We were sleeping peacefully in the tent when the owl’s sounds frightened us. My cat’s favorite pastime seems to be sleeping. If we make too much noise, we’ll wake the sleeping baby.

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User: In which sentence is the word sleeping a gerund? We were sleeping peacefully in the tent when the owl’s sounds frightened us. My cat’s favorite pastime seems to be sleeping. If we make too much noise, we’ll wake the sleeping baby.

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The sentence in which the word sleeping is a gerund is:
My cat’s favorite pastime seems to be sleeping.
The function of the gerund is predicate nominative.

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