Which sentence has a gerund or gerund phrase that functions as the direct object of the sentence?
a. the burning of fossil fuels releases methane into the air.
b. scientists studied the trapping of glass in the atmosphere.
c. at the urging of many, government leaders looks for ways to reduce pollution.

B. Scientists studied the trapping of glass in the atmosphere.

Explanation:

A gerund phrase is a phrase that starts with a verb using -ing form and that is functioning as a noun, when the gerund phrase is been used as the direct object of the sentence, the gerund phrase is the receiving object of the verb perfomed by the subject in the sentece, now form our options only B and C have gerund phrases, but only on B "Scientists studied the trapping of glass in the atmosphere.", the gerund phrase "Trapping of glass" is been used as a direct object since it is the noun that is receiving the verb, since Trapping glass is the things scientists are studying.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

don't enter the room

explanation:

or you can just ask him to move away from his house