Question

Hearing a loud noise, we ran to the window. participles or gerund

Answer 1

Answer:

In your sentence, "hearing" is a gerund. In English, the gerund is a verb that acts as a noun. "Hearing" is the "thing" that you're looking forward to. And the "to" is, as chamyto said, a preposition, with its object being the gerund "hearing".

Answer 2

Hearing a loud noise, we ran to the window.

• In the above-mentioned sentence, the gerund is the word ''hearing''.

• The given sentence is ''Hearing a loud noise, we ran to the window.''

• we need to find the gerund in the given sentence. ''Hearing'' is the gerund.

• The gerund is the verb in its-ing form. It actually a verb but it acts as a noun.

• Some verbs and verb phrases directly followed a gerund.

• In the given example, the word is ''hear'' following ''-ing'' so, 'Hearing'' is a gerund.

Hence, the required answer is the word ''Hearing''.