Question

clothes and shoes is her hobby use gerund

Answer 1

the answer is - buying clothes and shoes is her hobby

Answer 2

Gerunds are a type of noun. Don't confuse gerunds with the present participle, which we often use in continuous tense forms, for example.

Gerunds can be the subject of a sentence: "Swimming is good for you"; or the object of a sentence, "I don't like swimming".

Here are the other situations when we use gerunds:

After some verbs

You use the ing form after some verbs such as enjoy, admit, appreciate, can't stand / help / bear, deny, avoid, mind, understand, consider, finish, imagine and resent.

For example, "I can't stand doing nothing", or "She denied breaking the copier".

With other verbs, use the gerund after a preposition.

admit to (doing)

approve of (doing)

argue about (doing)

concentrate on (doing)

feel like (doing)

forget about (doing)

insist on (doing)

plan on (doing)

talk about (doing)

think about (doing)

(See our page on infinitives for verbs that are followed by the infinitive.)

With 'from' and 'to' with some verbs

Prevent / stop someone from doing: "He prevented her from leaving."

Look forward to doing: "We look forward to hearing from you soon."

Object to doing: "Does anyone object to me smoking?"

Get used to doing: "It took him a long time to get used to living in a city."

Prefer something to doing something else: "I prefer cooking to doing the dishes."

After prepositions

"Before going out he turned off the heating."

"I'm tired of arguing."

"These are used for cracking walnuts."

"I passed the exam by remembering the equations."

In some fixed expressions

"As well as doing..."

"It's no good doing..."

"It's no use doing..."