With the pounding rain and blowing wind, driving to the game was an exciting adventure. which word in the sentence is a gerund? pounding blowing driving exciting

Driving.

Explanation:

A gerund is the derivative of the present participle form of the verb that functions as a noun. These may be subjects, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects or the objects of the preposition. Thus, the word that justifies the above claim and functioning as a gerund is 'driving' as it is functioning as the subject of the verb "was". The other options exemplify the adjectives as they are modifying the noun rain, wind, and adventure while 'driving' is functioning as a noun.

a question like this requires the excerpt to be included in order to answer the question.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing