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.
This is like the tomato question.. Technically a piano is a percussion instrument. Although the sound you hear is not the striking of the hammers directly on the strings. There is an element of resonance involved.So like I said. xylophone isn't a woodwind instrument because it has wooden bars, nor is a gong a brass instrument because it is made of brass. Neither is a piano a string instrument just because what is 'percussed' happens to be a set of tuned strings. Source(s):