Read the sentence. Going to the game at night was always fun, but sometimes Cooper’s spirit for his team was not enough for a win. What type of phrase is the underlined phrase in the sentence?

“Going to the game at night” is a gerund phrase: “going” is an -ing verb form acting as a noun, and the phrase names what was fun. It serves as the subject of “was always fun.” An adverbial phrase would modify a verb, adjective, or adverb instead.

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