Points to remember: 1  A gerund is a verbal ending in-ing that is used as a noun. 2  A gerund phrase consists of a gerund plus modifier(s), object(s), and/or complement(s). 3  Gerunds and gerund phrases virtually never require punctuation.owever, since a gerund functions as a noun, it occupies some positions in a sentence that a noun ordinarily would, for example: subject, direct object, subject complement, and object of preposition. Gerund as subject: 1  Traveling might satisfy your desire for new experiences. ( 2 Traveling is the gerund.).
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.
A piano accordion. The piano accordion is the instrument most often indicated by the term accordion, but it is one of the most recent inventions among accordion types, appearing late in the 19th century and not accepted worldwide until the early 20th century.