Identify the gerund phrase and its noun use.
driving carelessly increases the likelihood of an accident.

In the sentence:

Driving carelessly increases the likelihood of an accident

The gerund phrase is ‘Driving carelessly’.

Gerund are verbs used as subjects in a sentence with the root word added by ‘-ing’. Verbs are simply known as the ‘action’ words – may it be mental, physical or mechanical. Nouns are names of a person, animal, place, event, etc. It could be proper or common noun.

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

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