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In English, the gerund
is identical in form to the present participle (ending in -ing) and can behave as a verb within a clause (so that it may be modified by adverb or have an object),
but the clause as a whole (sometimes consisting of only one word, the gerund
itself) acts as a noun within the larger sentence. For
example: Eating this cake is easy.
In “Eating this cake is
easy,” “eating this cake,” although traditionally known as aphrase, is referred to as
a non-finite clause in modern linguistics. “Eating” is
the verb in the clause, while “this cake” is the object of the verb. “Eating
this cake” acts as a noun phrase within the sentence as a whole,
though; the subject of the sentence is the non-finite clause, specifically eating.
Article :
A Muslim man accused of whipping his protegee 40
times with an electric cable for drinking alcohol said he inflicted the
punishment out of love, a Sydney court has been told.
Wassim Fayad allegedly told his victim Cristian Martinez,
“Next time you think of picking up a drink, you will remember this pain,”
Burwood Local Court was told on Monday.
Fayad, 44, Zakaryah Raad, 21, Tolga Cifci, 21, and Cengiz
Coskun, 22, have pleaded not guilty over the alleged incident in Mr Martinez’s
Silverwater apartment in western Sydney between July 16 and July 17 last year.
They have been charged with assault occasioning actual
bodily harm in company and stealing CCTV footage.
Mr Martinez, 32, had been introduced to the Islamic faith
several years before and had come to regard Fayad, also known as Fadi
Alemaddin, as his spiritual leader, prosecutor Sevinch Morkaya said.
After Mr Martinez got drunk and took cocaine, he called
Fayad, telling him, “I’m in trouble” and “I need to get off the drugs”.
In one of several phone calls played in court, Fayad could
be heard replying, “It means I’m going to tie you up, brother,
because that’s what you need.”
Mr Martinez told the court he had no memory of the phone
calls.
That night, Raad called around to Mr Martinez’s apartment
and later let the other three men in before they woke up a sleeping Mr
Martinez, the court heard.
Mr Martinez said he was friends with Raad, but he had only
seen the other two men on a couple of occasions and didn’t know their names.
“(Fayad) told me I was going to be punished under
Islamic law for what I’d been doing with drugs and alcohol,” Mr Martinez
said.
“I was a bit stirred up but I always believed in him.”
Mr Martinez said Raad and the other two men then held him
down on the bed while Fayad started hitting him with an electric cable.
“I was begging, ‘please no more, I don’t want any
more’,” he said.
After the first ten lashes, the men let Mr Martinez go and
he vomited while they held a wet towel on his back before he agreed to return
to the bed, the court heard.
“They didn’t force me,” he said.
However, Mr Martinez said he soon began begging and
crying again and, after he vomited following the 20th lash, he was
forced back onto the bed.
“I knew I had done the wrong thing, but I couldn’t believe I
was getting these hits,” he said.
Mr Martinez said he was told he should be getting 80
lashes for intoxication and that only the infirm were given 40 lashes.
After it was over, the court heard Fayad told Mr Martinez,
“I did it because I love you”.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Mr Martinez said. “I was so angry.
I was furious.”
The court heard Mr Martinez initially only identified Fayad
to police.
He later naming Raad as one of his attackers after Raad
called him up and told him there were “powerful people in Auburn”.
“I took that as a threat,” Mr Martinez said.
Magistrate Brian Maloney was told the evidence against Cifci
and Coskun was circumstantial, and issues would be raised in relation to Mr
Martinez’s identification of them.
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Gerund sebagai objek kalimat
1. A
Muslim man accused of whipping
2. With
an electric cable for drinking alcohol
3. Next
time you think of picking up a drink
4. Fayad could be heard replying
5. he called Fayad, telling him
·
Gerund sebagai pelengkap (complement)
1. actual
bodily harm in company and stealing CCTV footage.
2. Mr Martinez said he soon begging
3. Fayad started hitting him with an
electric cable
4. after he vomited following the 20th
lash
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Gerund sebagai subjek kalimat
1.
I’m
going to tie you up
2.
I
was going to be punished
3.
I
was begging, ‘please no more
4.
what
I’d been doing with drugs and alcohol
Gerund Clauses
1.
I
couldn’t believe I was getting these hits
2.
he
was told he should be getting 80 lashes
