Grammar Check
explanation:
In certain lines of the reading passage, "What are the UN's Nobel
Prizes?", notice how verbs that follow prepositions always take a gerund
(verb + ing) form:
"In awarding the Nobel
Prize...
"...its efforts in the area of promoting human rights, of fighting HIV/AIDS..."
"...UN Peacekeeping Forces were awarded the Prize for reducing tensions and for making a decisive
contribution toward initiating peace
negotiations..."
Notice how the gerund follows the
prepositions in these common expressions:
be interested in + gerund (example: He is
interested in learning more about the history of the Nobel
Prize.)
dream about + gerund (example: Many in the world
dream about having true international cooperation)
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